Courses

This course is structured to provide each of you with an in-depth look at a modern institution of oppression: the ghetto. The readings examine ghettoization across a wide geographic area. The course runs (fairly) chronologically, beginning with the ghettoization of Jews in Medieval Europe and ending with the ghettoization of African Americans and Latinos in the twentieth century United States, but also exploring the expanding patterns of segregation in the modern urban world.