GEO 455 - Gender, Race, and Class in the City

This course will focus on the relationships among gender, race, and class and urban spaces in twentieth century U.S. cities. The course will explore how urban spaces reflect and perpetuate different relations of power, inequality, and identity. First, we explore how different frameworks for urban analysis help to explain the social and spatial organization of U.S. cities. We will develop a framework for urban analysis that integrates race, class, and gender, and draws upon the geographic concepts of place and scale. Second, we will apply our integrated framework to contemporary metropolitan processes and problems.

Prerequisite(s): GEO 302 or permission of instructor.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

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Course Type: Geography