Description: (Formerly numbered Chicana and Chicano Studies 138A.) Seminar, four hours. Investigation of theories of spatial formation and their import for study of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Theories of space and place from interdisciplinary list of readings to investigate ways racial formation is embedded in property, maps, streets, and borders. Themes include introduction to spatial theory, settler colonialism, critical cartography, boundaries, and transgression. How space has shaped racial formation in multiracial places. Investigation of ways space, place, and race operate in maps, built environment, and multimedia world. P/NP or letter grading.

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