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CNX 149 - Race, Gender, and Community

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What are race and gender? How many races or genders are there? How are these answers determined? (Are race and gender biologically real? Are they socially constructed? Would their being socially constructed make them any less real?) How does someone’s race or gender affect their social position? What injustices do these social positions involve, and what can or should we do about them? Drawing on fields such as philosophy, sociology, women’s and gender studies, and critical race theory, we will critically examine a variety of answers to these questions so as to understand how we can have reasonable and productive disagreements about these contentious and politically charged issues.
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