Matthew Kateb Goldman, Class meets Tuesdays 4:00-6:30pm.

It is impossible to understand our past or present urban environments without a critical analysis of race and racism. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the contested meanings of race without accounting for the role of urban practices and environments in shaping racial identities, disparities, and struggles. This course explores the reciprocal relationship between urban studies and critical race studies, through thematic prisms that include urban planning and development; housing; cultural production and aesthetics; sexuality and gender; and the policing of public space.

Throughout, we will examine the ways that cities are remade by social movements, artists, and everyday residents through practices of spatial repurposing and cultural resistance.

Matthew Kateb Goldman (he/him) is a transdisciplinary scholar of American studies and the urban humanities. His scholarship critically considers power and difference in the urban built environments of the industrialized United States, working across cultural studies; aesthetics and performance; queer theory; queer and feminist of color critique; and science, technology, and society. Matthew earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University. 

Read more and register at: https://cab.brown.edu/?kw=27990#