Identity, Race, and Ethnicity (C037)
GEC Coordinator: Mark Tizzoni
The goal of this concentration is to encourage students to think in an interdisciplinary and intersectional manner about the construction of racial, ethnic, gender, class, and other identities in social, cultural, political, and historical contexts.
Complete any four courses designated with the (C037) GEC attribute. One non-Bates course may be applied toward the concentration if judged suitable by the concentration coordinator and with prior approval. One short term course may be applied to the GEC.
Active course offerings include:
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| AFR S15 | Queer and Trans Reproductive Justice |
| AFR 100 | Introduction to Africana |
| AFR 114 | Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910 |
| AFR 115 | Introduction to African American Literature II: 1910-Present |
| AFR 119 | Cultural Politics |
| AFR 162 | White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History |
| AFR 201 | Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought |
| AFR 202 | Coming of Age While Black |
| AFR 221 | Sociology of Immigration |
| AFR 225 | The Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World |
| AFR 227 | #BlackLivesMatter |
| AFR 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| AFR 242 | Passing/Trespassing |
| AFR 249 | African American Popular Music |
| AFR 253 | The African American Novel |
| AFR 255 | Black Poetry |
| AFR 258 | The Black Atlantic |
| AFR 259 | Contemporary African American Literature |
| AFR 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| AFR 301E | Black Struggles against American Slavery |
| AFR 306 | Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations |
| AFR 308 | Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights |
| AFR 309 | Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic |
| AFR 320 | Immigrant Racialization |
| AFR 330 | Latina/o/xs in NYC Hip-Hop Culture |
| AFR 395T | African American Literary Criticism |
| AMST 119 | Cultural Politics |
| AMST 141 | Rise of the American Empire |
| AMST 227 | #BlackLivesMatter |
| AMST 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| AMST 240I | French in Maine |
| AMST 244 | Native American History |
| AMST 247 | Contemporary Arab American Literature |
| AMST 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| AMST 281 | Arab American Poetry |
| AMST 288 | Visualizing Race |
| AMST 308 | Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights |
| AMST 330 | Latina/o/xs Hip-Hop |
| AMST 350 | Theorizing the Klan: The White Power Movement and the making of “America” |
| AMST 395J | Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature |
| ANTH S25 | Global Capitalism and the Sea: Society, Economy, and Environment |
| ANTH 101 | Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 167 | Culture in the Americas |
| ANTH 251 | Peoples of the Sea: Sailors, Pirates, Fishers, and More |
| ANTH 289 | After Deportation Ethnographies from Latin America and the Caribbean |
| ASIA 161 | A Cultural History of Japan |
| AVC 288 | Visualizing Race |
| CMS 107 | Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past |
| CMS 112 | Ancient Greek History |
| CMS 216 | Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain |
| CMS 291 | Colonization and Resistance in Late Antique North Africa |
| CMS 292 | The Dawn of the Middle Ages |
| CMS 293 | Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages |
| CMS 301H | Slavery in Ancient Rome |
| DCS 206 | The Past, Present, and Possible Dystopian Future of Computing |
| EDUC 242 | Race and Justice in American Education |
| ENG 105 | 9/11 in Literature and Film |
| ENG 114 | Introduction to African American Literature I: 1600-1910 |
| ENG 115 | Introduction to African American Literature II: 1910-Present |
| ENG 132 | Narratives of Assimilation and Alienation: "Immigrant Fiction" and the Making of Modern American Lit |
| ENG 143 | Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| ENG 214 | Shakespeare and Early Modern Racialization |
| ENG 247 | Contemporary Arab American Literature |
| ENG 253 | The African American Novel |
| ENG 255 | Black Poetry |
| ENG 259 | Contemporary African American Literature |
| ENG 281 | Arab American Poetry |
| ENG 306 | Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations |
| ENG 395J | Frontier and Border in U.S. Literature |
| ENG 395T | African American Literary Criticism |
| ENVR 228 | Latin America Debates Dependency and Development |
| EUS 151 | Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film |
| EUS 215 | Jewish Lives in Eastern Europe |
| EUS 217 | Fortress Europe: Race, Migration, and Difference in European History |
| EUS 230 | Cold War Identities: Competing Images of Self and Society in the US and the Soviet Union |
| FRE 151 | Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film |
| FRE 208 | Introduction to the Francophone World |
| FRE 240E | Le Maghreb: Vue de l'Enfance |
| FRE 240F | Borders and Disorders |
| FRE 240I | French in Maine |
| FRE 377 | Colon/Colonisé: Récits de l'Expérience Nord-Africaine |
| FRE 378 | Voix francophones des Antilles |
| FRE 379 | Documenting the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda |
| FYS 203 | Family Stories |
| GER 105 | Germany and the "New Europe:" The Cultures of Central and East-Central Europe after 1989 |
| GSS S15 | Queer and Trans Reproductive Justice |
| GSS 151 | Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film |
| GSS 155 | Gender, Power, and Politics |
| GSS 201 | Race, Ethnicity, and Feminist Thought |
| GSS 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| GSS 238 | Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements |
| GSS 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| GSS 270 | Sociology of Gender |
| GSS 282 | Constitutional Law II: Rights and Identities |
| GSS 301Z | Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements |
| GSS 306 | Queer Africana: History, Theories, and Representations |
| GSS 312 | Transgender Narratives |
| GSS 340 | Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion |
| GSS 377 | Colon/Colonisé: Récits de l'Expérience Nord-Africaine |
| HIST S28 | Wabanaki History in Maine |
| HIST 107 | Race Reception and the Modern Creation of the Ancient and Medieval Past |
| HIST 112 | Ancient Greek History |
| HIST 141 | Rise of the American Empire |
| HIST 216 | Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain |
| HIST 217 | Fortress Europe: Race, Migration, and Difference in European History |
| HIST 225 | The Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World |
| HIST 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| HIST 244 | Native American History |
| HIST 258 | The Black Atlantic |
| HIST 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| HIST 268 | US Latinx History |
| HIST 291 | Colonization and Resistance in Late Antique North Africa |
| HIST 292 | The Dawn of the Middle Ages |
| HIST 293 | Trans-Saharan Africa in the Middle Ages |
| HIST 301E | Black Struggles against American Slavery |
| HIST 301G | Black Resistance from the Civil War to Civil Rights |
| HIST 301H | Slavery in Ancient Rome |
| HIST 301Z | Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements |
| JPN 161 | A Cultural History of Japan |
| LALS 167 | Culture in the Americas |
| LALS 220 | Central America and The Caribbean |
| LALS 225 | The Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World |
| LALS 228 | Latin America Debates Dependency and Development |
| LALS 268 | US Latinx History |
| LALS 289 | After Deportation Ethnographies from Latin America and the Caribbean |
| LALS 309 | Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic |
| LALS 330 | Latina/o/xs in NYC Hip-Hop Culture |
| MUS 249 | African American Popular Music |
| PLTC 121 | The Moral Basis of Politics |
| PLTC 155 | Gender, Power, and Politics |
| PLTC 203 | Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States |
| PLTC 228 | Latin America Debates Dependency and Development |
| PLTC 238 | Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements |
| PLTC 256 | Feminist Political Thought |
| PLTC 260 | Nationalism and Nation Building |
| PLTC 268 | Global Political Economy of Development |
| PLTC 282 | Constitutional Law II: Rights and Identities |
| PLTC 301Z | Intersectionality and Feminist Social Movements |
| PLTC 354 | Race and the Right to Vote in the U.S. |
| REL 140 | Religion, Race, & Colonialism: An Introduction to Religious Studies |
| REL 223 | Conflict and Community in Medieval Spain |
| REL 292 | The Dawn of the Middle Ages |
| REL 306B | Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| REL 365B | W. E. B. Du Bois and American Culture |
| RFSS 162 | White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History |
| RFSS 202 | Coming of Age While Black |
| RFSS 219 | Race, Gender, and International Cinema |
| RFSS 220 | Constructions of Italian American Men and Masculinities |
| RFSS 242 | Passing/Trespassing |
| RFSS 391F | Bollywood |
| RUSS 230 | Cold War Identities: Competing Images of Self and Society in the US and the Soviet Union |
| SOC S20 | Social Inequality in Childhood and Youth |
| SOC 221 | Sociology of Immigration |
| SOC 238 | Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements |
| SOC 242 | Race and Justice in American Education |
| SOC 250 | Privilege, Power, and Inequality |
| SOC 270 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 289 | After Deportation Ethnographies from Latin America and the Caribbean |
| SOC 320 | Immigrant Racialization |
| SOC 321 | Black Immigrant Narratives |
| SOC 340 | Poverty, Policy, and Social Inclusion |
| SOC 350 | Race, Crime, and Punishment in America |
| THEA 238 | Race and Ethnicity in Modern and Contemporary American Drama |