3.0

credits

Average Course Rating

Identifying residential segregation as a principle driver of racial inequity, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to end housing discrimination and advance the racial integration American cities. Fifty years after this landmark legislation, however, American cities are in most cases more segregated than ever before. New and urgent demands for racial justice, coalescing in transnational movements like Black Lives Matter, have brought a renewed focus onto the deep and abiding social harms wrought by decades of urban segregation. Drawing on anthropological and sociological scholarship on cities both in and outside the United States, this course will examine the social forces that drive segregation, reify boundaries in urban space, and reproduce persistent power asymmetries.