Black Spatial Politics

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This course investigates the spatial aspects of anti-Blackness and the resistance strategies that emerge in response, viewed through comparative and relational geographic lenses. It explores the legacies of colonial spatial violence, as well as current issues such as segregation in housing, homelessness, and police violence, while also addressing the fight for urban inclusion within African Diaspora communities. The course focuses on three key aims: 1) examining how both institutional policies and everyday actions contribute to creating anti-Black spaces in urban, rural, and suburban contexts; 2) explore theories of race and space; and c) bring attention to the ways in which Black gendered spatial practices resist and at times extend exclusionary, imperialist and colonial geographies that sustain anti-Blackness. Satisfies Africana Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.