CTSJ 315 Racialization of Space
This course will explore the experiences of marginalized peoples in relation to race, space, and segregation, with a particular focus on Native American experiences. The racialization of space in the United States illumines various technologies of oppression and the historical creation of the so-called “Other.” Students will be required to interrogate the geographic spaces and land we inhabit and how space is socially created to serve dominant settler and white supremacist narratives. This course will explore institutional racism, segregation, and the creation of difference through discourses, policies, and laws, as well as the politics of space and sight. We will also be discussing boarding schools, the creation of reservations, Native (and POC) criminality and prisons, as well as Native histories of Southern California. There will be a strong emphasis on learning in action throughout the course.