SOCI 321 - Racializing the City: the Political Economy of Equality & Exclusion in the U.S. Urban Context

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
This course offers a historical and contemporary look at racial inequality in the United States through the lens of the city. As large-scale, concentrated spaces of wealth accumulation, poverty, habitation, education, social control, and, periodically, counter-hegemonic social mobilization, cities are and have been major sites of inequality generation and amelioration. With an abiding focus on how the state and the market combine to determine who gets what, how, when, and why, this course takes a political economy approach to race-making in urban America. Topics explored include social processes and policies related to housing, education, employment, urban redevelopment, and policing.