IDENTITIES AND PLACE

Undergraduate

This course explores how identity categories such as gender, race, disability, sexuality, and national identity are reflected in a range of everyday places. Using examples such as housing, schools, workplaces, restaurants, malls, prisons, streets and sidewalks, and nations and borders, it analyzes how place always reflects embedded assumptions about who belongs or is included, and who doesn’t belong or is excluded. Place offers a way to further investigate how identity matters in the everyday world as well as to question how those identity categories are constructed and perpetuated. PREREQUISITE: None Three hours a week