Black Cities: Spatial Politics of Violence, Power and Resistance

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Examines spatial dynamics of anti-Blackness and spatial politics of resistance in relational and comparative geographical perspectives. Study of colonial histories of spatial violence and current patterns of residential segregation, homelessness, and police brutality, as well as the struggle for urban citizenship in societies of the African Diaspora. The goal of the course is threefold: a) it analyzes institutional policies and mundane practices that produce cityscapes as anti-Black; b) it interrogates the Marxist-oriented framework on the right to the city; and c) it gives visibility to Black gendered spatial praxes that challenge exclusionary city politics and their attending geographies of anti-Blackness.