FS 004 PZ -Race, Gender, and Health in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Institution: Pitzer

Description: We will use the sociological imagination to comprehend the social context of how race and gender mediate how we understand health, illness, and U.S. health care system. This course will review some key sociological and epidemiological scholarship on institutionalized racism and sexism within U.S. healthcare by exploring the history of colonialism and its role in the subjugation of people of color and women and other minoritized gender identities. We also will discuss how racism and sexism function as interlocking systems of oppression and result in the perpetuation of unequal access to healthcare. (Instructor: Alicia Bonaparte)

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.