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Decades of scholarship has shown race to be a social construct with histories of interactions across racial groups, making boundaries between groups porous, tenuous, and dubious. What then is productive of preoccupations with racial classifications? In this course, we will study how racial categorizations enable violence in imperial, colonial, and democratic projects. How have various discursive, medical, and scientific regimes buttressed such projects? We will engage with the work of anthropologists, philosophers, and legal scholars to investigate these questions in a range of contexts.