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HIST 12C

Inequality: Global History of Anti-Colonial Thought and Struggle

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Ongoing growth and normalization of poverty, violence, and racial hatred in neo-liberal present have direct linkage to earlier moment when colonial rule of previous century brought about global structure of inequality. Examination of some of most important voices of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle from comparative perspective in order to historicize current conjuncture. Readings include Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Ho Chi Minh, Toten Miyazaki, Sun Yat-Sen, Shusui Kotoku, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and Mahatma Gandhi. Use of dialogue to reveal and reflect on commonalities and differences of thinker/activist pairs. Historical background for each thinker and active engagement in interpretation and discussion of texts. Group project as way to reflect on current conjecture. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 167 · 1 term · ± 0.041
A range
86%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 17522W
Enrolment by term: 22W 175
Peak 175 Most recent 175 in 22W 1 term on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 1 · 0.6%
  • A 98 · 56.0%
  • A- 44 · 25.1%
  • B+ 17 · 9.7%
  • B 4 · 2.3%
  • B- 1 · 0.6%
  • C 2 · 1.1%
  • P 7 · 4.0%
  • I 1 · 0.6%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
HIRANO, KATSUYA 3.79 3.79 167 1 86%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term