ASAM 110 PZ -Science, Race & Social Change

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course examines the relationship between technoscientific discourses and US racial discourses, addressing questions such as: how have science and race co-constituted each other; how do technoscientific innovations create and exacerbate racial inequalities; how have community-led social movements transformed science; how do historically marginalized groups reimagine technoscientific research and its uses. Our course objective will be to think broadly about the implications of scientific research, particularly within the interconnected legacies of US imperialism, militarism, diasporic migration, and global geopolitics. Central to our investigation is the goal of uncovering ways in which to practice a more just, equitable people-centered science.