Race, Place, and Space

3 Credits.

This course explores how structures and societies produce space, how groups engage in placemaking, and the relationship of space/place to processes of racial formation. How do social, structural, political, and economic relationships shape space? How do racial groups respond to spatial marginalization? We will examine communities in the United States and across the globe in order to understand how processes like colonialism, segregation, redlining, urbanization, urban renewal, migration, and gentrification have shaped space and place. Through it all, we will consider how spatial claims relate to struggles for justice, self-determination, and political autonomy.