| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Crash Course in the Category of Race as Biological Phantom and Social Reality | |
| Part 1: The Alchemy of Race: Making and Unmaking Scientific Racism | ||
| 3 | Blood, Sex, and Skeletons: Colonialism, Climatic Determinism, Cranial Capacity, and the Rise of Monogenist and Polygenist Scientific Racism | |
| 4 | Germ Plasm: American and British Eugenics | |
| 5 | Skin Color, Bodily Form: Laws of Science and Laws of the Land in the Context of Immigration, Assimilation and Early 20th-Century American Anthropology | |
| 6 | Health and Hygiene: Latin American Lamarckism, Nazi German Darwinism | |
| 7 | From Population to Genome: Race after World War Two | Paper 1 due |
| 8 | Race and Medicine | |
| Part 2: Reformulating Race: Making and Remaking the Idioms of Science | ||
| 9 | Alternative Histories and Futures for the Racial Economy of Science | |
| 10 | Land, Science, and Knowledge in Native America | Paper 2 due |
| 11 | African - American Technoscientific Histories and Afrofuturist Projects | |
| 12 | Citizenship, Cyborgs, Model Minorities and Border Crossings | |
| 13 | Race in the Digital Age | Paper 3 due |