Intendierte Lernergebnisse
In this course on pollution and environmental injustice we review how residential segregation is the physical separation of the living spaces of people from different identity groups. Racialized residential segregation was a significant component of American Jim Crow legislation, and the dismantling of residential segregation was a substantial focus of the Civil Rights Movement. Students may have some familiarity with the history of US racialized residential segregation; however, very few people recognize the extent to which residential segregation plays a critical role in most Americans’ lives today. In order to illustrate this, we will look at impacts of residential segregation from a number of different disciplinary perspectives - biological, ecological, philosophical, political, psychological, economic, and sociological - focusing on injustices that arise from residential segregation along racial and socioeconomic lines. This review will cover pollution and environmental harm, but also lasting health, food access, and investment access disparities in American urban and rural living. This course will examine how segregation continues to play a significant role in American economic and social life and is responsible for the negative enduring legacy of environmental racism and food injustice. We will consider the case of politically/ideologically segregated communities as one potential source of Americans’ ever decreasing ability to fruitfully communicate across political divides.
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Curriculare Anmeldevoraussetzungen
Students must have completed the lecture British ODER American Cultures: History and Society.