GEOG 1020 — United States Geography
This course focuses on the cultural and historical landscapes of structural racism in the United States. It broadly examines U.S. federal, state, and local public policies that have entrenched prejudice in law and social interactions and opportunities. Topics include but are not limited to slavery, the freedom of movement, U.S. land settlement, segregation, Jim Crow policing, redlining, urban renewal, cultures of poverty, higher education, public housing, the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, and racial profiling among others. Essential to this examination is a comparative review of the contemporary American geographies of jurisprudence, race and ethnicity, poverty, urban development, displacement, equitability, social and economic opportunity, and racial justice.