Guide

Start with a Question, Not a Discipline

These modules are designed to be approached through questions that cross traditional academic boundaries.

A module about immigration might ask us to consider who belongs, how categories are created, how law produces social difference, or how institutions distribute power. A module about social movements might lead us to questions about evidence, representation, collective action, or how people make change.

This approach reflects how humanities research often works in practice: a single question can move across history, literature, law, sociology, political theory, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and other fields.

The modules are therefore not organized according to a single disciplinary identity. Instead, they offer multiple points of entry into shared intellectual questions.

CRT

Critical Race Theory provides a framework for examining how race and racism are produced through law, institutions, culture, and systems of power. Rather than treating race as a fixed or self-evident category, it asks how racial categories are constructed, how they become embedded in institutions, and how they shape people’s lives.

Across these modules, students examine how ideas about race, citizenship, belonging, and difference are created and contested. They consider how laws can produce racial categories, how institutions give those categories material consequences, and how political language and narratives shape who is understood as belonging, deserving protection, or posing a threat.

Critical Race Theory therefore functions here not simply as a subject of study, but as a way of asking questions that cross disciplinary boundaries.

There is no single path through these resources. We encourage you to explore, make connections, and imagine how the materials might work in your own classroom.