Tag: segregation

  • Understanding the City as a Settler Colonial Structure

    Much of the scholarship within American urban sociology has concerned itself with the various forms of inequality that have developed in and around US cities throughout its history. The various schools of critical urban sociology have various developed ways of understanding cities as raced (Lai 2012), classed (Reardon and Bischoff 2011), and gendered (Popkin, Leventhal,…

  • The Transition from Blackness as Property to Blackness as Pathogen in the United States

    (Derived from a course paper for a Historical Institutionalism class taught by Jim Mahoney at Northwestern University) One of the central stories within United States history is that of the development of its racial regime. From slavery till today we have seen fairly large changes in the racial regime that reflect changes in how the…