IRES-135

The built environment plays a major role in how we understand and experience race. Racial difference also shapes the buildings and landscapes we occupy and imagine. In this course, we will approach these phenomena by studying 1. how modern and contemporary architecture has enclosed, divided, circulated, and framed bodies in particular ways, and 2. how specific architectural structures have emerged as racial formations, from the eighteenth century to present day. Topics may include: plantations, parks, skyscrapers, slums, suburbia, freeways, prisons, camps, shantytowns, and zoos. Students will acquire historical contexts and develop analytical skills for engaging both race and the built environment. Lecture-based with discussion posts, papers, and presentations. Open to first-year students and sophomores; others by consent of instructor. May be elected as Art History 135. Distribution areas: Cultural Pluralism, Fine Arts, Humanities, Power and Equity, Studying the Past, Textual Analysis.

Academic Credit, DIST-FINE ARTS, DIST-HUMANITIES, DIST-CULTURAL PLURALISM, Graded Standard, Academic Evaluate Course, INTER.DISC-RACE&ETHNIC ST, INTER.DISC-FILM&MEDIA ST, Cross-listed Course, Textual Analysis, Power and Equity, Studying the Past, Indigeneity, Race & Ethn.