Race and Space: Segregation, Suburbanization, and Sites of Encampment

Through a range of historical examples from the 20th century, Race and Space: Segregation, Suburbanization, and Sites of Encampment examines how interconnected forms of racial and spatial difference are produced, reproduced, and transformed in various U.S. locales. This class will provide students with a unique opportunity to conduct primary-source research in a number of archives and apply the course themes to local historical issues of race and space. Students will gain exposure to a wide variety of case studies, disciplines, methodologies, and approaches in which scholars are writing, thinking, and publicly displaying issues of race and space.