Blackness and the Politics of Space and Place

3 credits · Graduate

What can we learn about how places are made and un-made when we focus on the lives and experiences of the Black people who live within them? Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, and geography, this course critically explores “Black geographies'' in an effort to understand the ways that race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Exploring both the joys and the pains of Black social and cultural life, living under regimes of gentrification, displacement, environmental degradation, and white supremacy. Throughout the course, students will be given structured opportunities to apply their critical lenses to the intersections of race, space, and place in the Bay Area.