Legal Geographies of Race in the U.S.

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the subdiscipline of legal geography. Explores the interactions between race and the law in the United States, with a specific focus on how U.S. law (re)produces racial inequalities. We examine how U.S. law has constructed race itself and provided differing rights based on racial categories. Students will consider the various institutions and processes that have come together to shape our contemporary racial landscape through the lens of law.