Assembled here is a list of courses that explore topics surrounding race and racism in the United States. They span Amherst’s curriculum and are drawn from a larger set of courses that address issues of race and racism around the world.

Please also visit Amherst's Racial Justice Resources page.

Spring 2021

AMST-225: Mixed-Race America
AMST-301: The Architecture of Race
ANTH-332: Topics in Contemporary Anthropology
BLST-200: Critical Debates in Black Studies
BLST-201: Power and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
BLST-240: Afro-Latinos
COLQ-344: Point/Counterpoint: Politics and Poetry
ECON-212: Public Economics
ECON-416: Economics of Race and Gender
ENGL-215: Re-imagining American Literature, 1865 to the Present
ENGL-283: Television Narratives
ENGL-372: Reading the Romance
ENST-220: Environmental Issues of the 19th Century
EUST-237: God
HIST-245: U.S. Carceral Culture
HIST-250: King
HIST-355: Race and Educational Opportunity in America
LLAS-455: One Hundred Years of Solitude
MUSI-126: Hip Hop History and Culture
POSC-135: Justice
POSC-357: Identity Politics
POSC-374: Rights
PSYC-363: Psychology and the Law
RELI-135: Race and Religion in the U.S. West/Mexico Borderlands
SWAG-200: Feminist Theory
SWAG-231: Contested Bodies

Fall 2020

AMST-130: Transnational American Studies
AMST-200: Race, Education & Belonging
AMST-204: Asian American Experience
AMST-215: "The Embodied Self" in American Culture and Society
AMST-234: The Sanctuary Movement: Religion, Activism, and Social Contestation
AMST-334: History & Memory
AMST-345: Model Minorities: Jewish and Asian Americans
AMST-372: Asian American History
ANTH-248: Islamophobia
ANTH-311: Culture & Mental Health
BLST-111: Introduction to Black Studies
BLST-162: Black (on) Earth: Introduction to African American Environmental Literature
BLST-236: Black Sexualities
BLST-248: Race and American Capitalism: From Slavery to Ferguson
ENGL-391: Literature of Everyday Life
ENST-250: US Environmental Policy
EUST-420: Antisemitism
FYSE-105: Reading Asian American
FYSE-123: Antiracism
FYSE-124: Telling Stories
FYSE-125: Race, Difference, and the American Imagination
HIST-155: Twentieth-Century America
HIST-352: The Purpose and Politics of Education
HIST-380: US Third World Feminists
HIST-419: On Nationalism
HIST-436: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History
HIST-455: The Long Civil Rights Movement
LLAS-200: Major Debates in Latinx and Latin American Studies
MUSI-128: The Blues Muse
MUSI-226: Jazz History to 1945
POSC-219: Introduction to American Politics
POSC-257: Race and US Politics
POSC-426: The Politics of Consumer Finance
PSYC-224: Intergroup Dialogue on Race
PSYC-337: Stereotypes & Prejudice
SOCI-226: Unequal Footprints on the Earth
SOCI-325: Protest!
SPAN-301: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic World
SWAG-100: The Cross-Cultural Construction of Gender
SWAG-108: Feminist Science Studies
SWAG-208: Black Feminist Literary Traditions
SWAG-372: Indigenous Feminisms
SWAG-400: Contemporary Debates: Gender and Right-Wing Nationalism
THDA-118H: Contemporary Dance Technique: The Influence of Black Artists
THDA-122H: Contemporary Dance Technique: Hip Hop