FYS475
Theorizing the Ku Klux Klan: The White Power Movement and the Making of "America"
Subject code
FYS
Course Number
475
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
C. Petrella
Course Long Title
Theorizing the Ku Klux Klan: The White Power Movement and the Making of "America"
Description
This multidisciplinary course explores the origins and iterations of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the United States from 1866 to the present. In so doing, the course makes larger claims about the core relationship between the white power movement and the making of "America." Drawing on the concepts, paradigms, and intellectual traditions of American cultural studies and Black studies, students consider the shifting narratives, contested ideologies, and the regional and temporal convergences and divergences of the KKK from its violent founding to our contemporary moment. Students learn how to theorize the KKK through frameworks that prioritize the concepts of racialization, patriarchy, cultural hegemony, resistance, citizenship, and counterrevolution.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
W1
INDS Program Relationship
IDAM - AMST Program