Arts, Sciences, and Engineering History
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-117420 HIST 267-1 History of White Supremacy Fall 2021 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 325 PM 605 PM Rush Rhees Library Room 362
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: AAAS 268-2, HIST 267-1 (P), HIST 267W-1
Instructors: Ryan Purcell
Description: The central theme of American history is the problem of race. At the heart of the race problem in America is the white supremacy ideology. Pre-modern concepts of human distinctions typically rested on group membership and coalesced around notable differences such as ethnicity, religion, and color, but without anything resembling a formal ideology. In the United States, the historically constructed ideology of White Supremacy provided an intellectual foundation that supported a system of white wealth, power, and privilege. This course will examine the competing forces that produced a white supremacy ideology that was unique to the United States: conceived in the seventeenth century during the years of early settlement, it was born in the political turmoil of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and reached adulthood in the Civil Rights struggles of the twentieth century.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-117421 HIST 267W-1 History of White Supremacy Fall 2021 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 325 PM 605 PM Rush Rhees Library Room 362
Enrollment: Enrolled     
15 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: AAAS 268-2, HIST 267-1 (P), HIST 267W-1
Instructors: Ryan Purcell
Description: The central theme of American history is the problem of race. At the heart of the race problem in America is the white supremacy ideology. Pre-modern concepts of human distinctions typically rested on group membership and coalesced around notable differences such as ethnicity, religion, and color, but without anything resembling a formal ideology. In the United States, the historically constructed ideology of White Supremacy provided an intellectual foundation that supported a system of white wealth, power, and privilege. This course will examine the competing forces that produced a white supremacy ideology that was unique to the United States: conceived in the seventeenth century during the years of early settlement, it was born in the political turmoil of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and reached adulthood in the Civil Rights struggles of the twentieth century.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer