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ED POL 143

HISTORY OF RACE AND INEQUALITY IN URBAN AMERICA

3 credits.

Examine the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race and how those processes have shaped mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality, and the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities who have been marginalized or discriminated against. Key questions include: What is the historical nature of inequality and opportunity in metropolitan America? What policies and ideas have historically promoted inequality, and how have those policies and ideas shifted over time? How have marginalized people responded to inequality, and what impacts have various modes of resistance had? Lastly, what is "race," how has its meaning changed over time, and how has it historically shaped inequality and opportunity?

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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Communication & Literacy Comm QR - Communication B Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate their awareness of History’s Impact on the Present Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recognize and Question Assumptions Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate their consciousness of Self and Others Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate their capacity for Effective Participation in a Multicultural Society Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and discuss the significance of key actors, events, themes, and ideas relating to the history of race and inequality in the metropolitan United States Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify and evaluate historical arguments in secondary scholarly works Audience: Undergraduate 7. Interpret, analyze, and contextualize primary historical sources Audience: Undergraduate 8. Use library resources in order to locate relevant primary and secondary source materials Audience: Undergraduate 9. Synthesize information from primary and secondary sources in order to develop and support their own evidence-based historical interpretations Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate their awareness of History’s Impact on the Present Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recognize and Question Assumptions Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate their consciousness of Self and Others Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate their capacity for Effective Participation in a Multicultural Society Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and discuss the significance of key actors, events, themes, and ideas relating to the history of race and inequality in the metropolitan United States Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify and evaluate historical arguments in secondary scholarly works Audience: Undergraduate 7. Interpret, analyze, and contextualize primary historical sources Audience: Undergraduate 8. Use library resources in order to locate relevant primary and secondary source materials Audience: Undergraduate 9. Synthesize information from primary and secondary sources in order to develop and support their own evidence-based historical interpretations Audience: Undergraduate

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