Ethnic Studies: Race, Space and Segregation
- Why and how was the racialization of space and the spatialization of race intrinsic to settler colonialism in the US? [intrinsic (adj.) = belonging naturally to something; essential]. 2. Why and how was the racialization of space and the spatialization of race intrinsic to slavery in the US? 3. Through what mechanisms did the system of racial apartheid in the US known as Jim Crow happen between the late 1870s and the late 1960s? Also, what purposes did it serve? 4. Through what mechanisms did racial ghettoization happen in the US? Also, what purposes did it serve? 5. How did “urban renewal” programs contribute to and exacerbate race and class segregation in Los Angeles?