Race and Homelessness

Catalog description

In this course, students will explore the root causes, historical context, and personal experiences of homelessness, as well as examine current programs and affordable housing initiatives designed to tackle these issues. Students will become familiarized with models of care (mental and physical) tailored to people experiencing homelessness. Further, the course while allow students to interact with organizations that assist vulnerable groups. Central to these discussions will be an analysis of how race shapes and informs who becomes homeless, how one experiences homelessness, how homelessness is framed in public health and political rhetoric, and how people from the Black Diaspora have theorized and conceptualized homelessness and its intervention differently from dominant discourse. Satisfies Africana Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.