CBL:Border Imperialism

4 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course tackles the intertwined issues of settler state formation, capitalist dispossession, mobility, and bodily sovereignty. We will read about native people's refusal of state-imposed borders, enslaved individuals' survival strategies through forced migration, contemporary migrants' resistance to being criminalized, and the human toll of militarized borders. As a community-based learning class, students will work with community-based organizations that fight for migrant and racial justice. They also will help build an oral history archive on experiences with migration -- and being separated from loved ones -- in the COVID era.