Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender

The impact of inequalities in property, power, and prestige for their effects on life chances and lifestyles of Africans and African-descended people in the Western Hemisphere. The course primarily focuses on socioeconomic classes in modern societies. Special attention is given to the role of religious, racial, gender, and ethnic factors in the lives of African descended people. The course will engage comparisons of different systems of stratification in the world today.