GWSS1915: Trauma and the White Racial Frame: Disrupting Whiteness and White Body Supremacy in Everyday Life

This class will trace trauma as it was passed down from one European body to another beginning with Middle Ages, imported to the New World by Colonists, then based down by many generations of people including African Americans, First-Nations peoples, and white Americans. One of the basic premises of this course is that psychosocial wounds of white body supremacy in the United States impedes ethical reasoning and decision making in society. Consequently, most Americans routinely reinforce the power of whiteness and white supremacy to detriment of other members of society, the social environments that people interact in, and society as a whole. This course will educate students about the socio-cultural wounds of racial trauma in the United States, toward the aim of, building personal and interpersonal resilience at school, work, and other settings. Students will develop skills to recognize and disrupt white body supremacy in order to foster racial justice, equity, and diversity in broader society.

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