Week 3 (9/14) – Geographies of race and inequality (RS&I)
Section outline
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We see racial difference reflected in space, but does geography produce racial identities?
Watch:
Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History. (2018, April 11). Code Switch from NPR.
Read:
Butler, S. M. & Grabinsky, J. (2015, March 24). Segregation and concentrated poverty in the nation’s capital. Brookings.
Rothstein, R. (2015, March 30). Should we force integration on those who don’t want it?, and other commonplace questions about race relations. Economic Policy Institute.
Delaney, D. (2002). The space that race makes. The Professional Geographer, 54(1), 6–14.
Submit by 11am:
1) Response blog RSI-2: Explain how living and working in segregated spaces could shape somebody’s understandings of what race means: the significance of their own racial identity as well as the racial identities of others? Delaney and other geographers argue that the spatial organization of our society produces and perpetuates racial privilege and inequality. Do you agree? If so, how does that work? (250 words)
2) Neighborhood case study initial visit report (RS&I)
3) Select topic for CD org profile (CD)
--------September 15 (evening)
Theater performance: Monumental Travesties at Mosaic Theater
8:00pm
1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002