This 2-part live course examines the origins of the idea of “races” of human beings in the United States, and traces its deployment over two centuries in efforts to conquer, enslave, exterminate, civilize, integrate and assimilate various “races” of people both inside the U.S. and across the world. Topics include:

• American slavery and the invention of race

• Thomas Jefferson and early race science

• Abolitionism and racial liberalism

• Assimilation vs. extermination: the Indians

• Race, uplift, and American empire

• Immigration and “the races of Europe”

• Irish, Jews, Italians: from black to white

• World War II and the origins of anti-racism

• The Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of racial liberalism

• Wokeness and the new anti-racism

To access this streaming video course, you may purchase it individually for $79 or become a member of Unregistered Academy.