RACE ON TRIAL FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO GEORGE FLOYD

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Citizenship in the United States has been, since the founding, confounded by racial difference. Courts have often served as the sites where the racialized meanings of American citizenship have been forged. This class explores this process through a series of racially charged trials, stretching from 1800 to 2020. Cross-list: AAAS 396 .