AAAS 305S · also DOCST 305S, SOCIOL 305S
Black Geographies: Borders, Boundaries & Blackness in the U.S.
Naiima Khahaifa
Description from DukeHub
What are Black geographies, and how are they produced? What relationships exist between race and place-making (or placelessness)? How is race articulated through the production of space? How have Black geographies shifted across time and space, and what will they look like in the future? Focusing on the United States, students will have an opportunity to build their understanding of the historical and contemporary processes that reproduce US Black geographies, such as Black middle-class and affluent neighborhoods, predominantly Black rural prison towns, and concentrated urban poverty.
Skills
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AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
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