Topics in Domestic Policy: Race, Place, and Public Policy

Place is a central dimension in which racial inequality is experienced and reproduced in the contemporary United States. This course covers the origins, significance, and implications of residential segregation by race across America's cities and suburbs. Topics addressed include the relationship between place and race; the institutionalization of this relationship in the form of residential segregation; the important assumptions often embedded in conversations about segregation and integration; and the impacts of segregation, concentrated poverty, and concentrated affluence on American racial inequality.