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Thinking about Identity
Professor Georgia Warnke
Department of Philosophy
Course: HASS 092-38W
Call #: 19617
Mondays, 10:10-11:00am, HMNSS 1605B

This course explores the way we think about who we are. We all have various identities: we are students or professors, men or women, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latino/a-Americans, Democrats and Republicans. Are some of these identities more essential than others? Can we separate our various identities or do race, gender, nationality and the like always intersect in different ways so that one is never just a woman but a Black or white women or a Latina and so on? What are identities anyway?

Reading List:

Naomi Zack (ed.): Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference and Interplay
Georgia Warnke: After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender

Brief Biographical Statement:

Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities.