ANT 330 American Cultural Pluralism, Justice and the Law
3 hours
People’s struggles in the law against injustice in the U.S. are also cultural struggles. Sometimes, those struggles are for equal legal rights and recognitions. Other times, oppressed groups struggle to maintain their self –determination and sovereignty. Collective legal aspirations are intertwined with custom and definitions of community. Through legal and ethnographic cases, this course examines the anthropological concept of cultural pluralism and the ways in which different racial, ethnic, new immigrant, LGBTQ and other identity groups struggle to assert cultural and legal claims in the context of United States law.
Prerequisite
ENG 201 and junior standing or above
Notes
This course satisfies the
College Option: The Struggle for Justice & Equality in the U.S. (300-Level) area of the Gen Ed Program.