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POL2392H1S L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL492H1S L0101
Topics in Comparative Politics IV
Race
Themes
This course explores the history and transformation of the concept of race, in theory and practice. Race has meant different things in different historical periods, and has been used for different purposes. It also means different things in different parts of the world. Some countries have invented multiple racial categories, while others recognize only a limited number; in some countries race can be transcended, in others it is fixed. Although race has disappeared as a biological or genetic category, it has not ceased to be socially and politically relevant, and it is still an important mediator of identity and experience in most parts of the world. It is also an important form and anchor of political opposition. What accounts for the persistence and ubiquity of race, even as the concept is repeatedly emptied of content?
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...