AASP499O

Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, paying particular attention to the frameworks provided by African American Studies, Community Studies, and the emerging fields of Digital and Urban Humanities, this course will: (1) Study the racial and spatial disparities that define the current pandemic, (2) explore the connections between the current public health crisis and the histories of anti-black urban policy that have built (and re-built) the American city and conditioned this moment, and (3) draw from the various archives and stores of knowledge produced by Black urbanites in order to develop a critical understanding of this moment and to imagine post-COVID futures.