SOC-345 Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Urban America
This class examines the ethnic and racial urban communities of native-born and immigrant populations in an era of globalization. This course discusses both micro interactions between people in these spaces and macro structural forces such as migration, transnationalism and globalization that shape them. Topics throughout the semester include the past and present development of ghettos and enclaves, immigrants and their communities, barrios, social inequality, racial segregation,public housing and urban politics, transnational communities, new ethnic communities, and gentrification.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
one sociology course, or permission of instructor.
Offered
Fall