Race Locales: Race, Place, and Space in the US

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is taught in an inquiry-based seminar format. Students can expect to engage the subject matter from a socio-historical perspective that will provide them with a critical context for understanding race, space and place in the USA. We will also discuss how race ideologies in the US have extended beyond its borders. To achieve this, we will examine how people of color’s movement, location, and relocation is shaped through laws, policies, and social patterns. We will also examine how racial imaginaries have shaped residential patterns, injustices, and social isolation and conflicts for Indigenous peoples, Aboriginals, Blacks and African Americans, Mexicans & Hispanic/Latino/a groups, and Asian Americans. To bring to the fore the politics of race and identity politics, we will discuss the racialization of the United States, American-ness as whiteness, white privilege, and the consequences for the social landscape. And finally, the course will consider how the racial construction of the US is manifested and buttressed through the built environment.