PLSC 311 - The Politics of Race, Class and Poverty

5 credit hours

Political causes and consequences of race and class hierarchies and marginalization in the U.S. at the level of ideology, institutions, and individuals. How is inequality based upon and reproduced by these socio-political categories? Examination of how this tension is manifest in the peculiar American view of poverty and social policy as outwardly individually based, yet inherently group based in practice.