ANT6056H: Decolonizing Diversity Discourse: Critical and Comparative Accounts of Multiculturalism and Settler Colonialism

This course takes a comparative and critical approach to discourses and policies surrounding "Diversity" and other related terms such as "Multiculturalism" and "Multiracialism." How are practices and histories of colonialism, settler-colonialism and post-colonialism interacting with and impacting expressions of "Diversity"? How do they affect Indigenous, racialized, or minority groups in several countries across North America, Asia, and Africa differently? Decolonization as a method and practice will also be addressed in this course — can we truly decolonize the institutions that claim to study or practice "Diversity" including Anthropology? What does it mean to want to "decolonize" institutions, universities, and research methods in academia? How can anthropologists learn to do better?

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