HIST 257 Race, Ethnicity, and the Law in U.S. History

This course examines the histories of African, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, and Asian Americans from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the use of law as a tool to both enforce and combat racial and ethnic hierarchies and inequality in the U.S. Topics include slavery; Indian removal; evolving status of Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans; Asian exclusion and internment; segregation; legal construction of whiteness; police violence; mass incarceration; and protests, resistance, and demands for equality. [GM1, SS, V, W]

Instructor

Rosen