UCSB undergraduate students are invited to register to join the Burdick Global Scholars Program Seminar "Urban Colonialscapes" led by Prof. Jaime Alves (Black Studies) and urban activists scholars. We will be connecting students from UCSB with students from Universidad del Valle in Colombia and the grassroots organization Casa Cultural El Chontaduro. The course will be taught via zoom with at least two in-person meetings. Spanish speaking students interested in issues of social/environmental justice; housing; carcerality and abolition are encouraged to attend. More information and course registration can be found here. For questions, contact Lena Mitchell <lenasmitchell@ucsb.edu>. Learn more about this Burdick Global Scholars Program here.
This seminar will investigate structural patterns of spatial violence and interpret local forms of resistance to reclaim the right to the city. This seminar asks: How is racism reinforced, negotiated, and contested in the multicultural polis? How are gender, race, and space mobilized to de/colonize the city?
Module I - The Colonial City
Module II - The Political Economy of Urbanization
Module III - Urban Gendered Antiblackness
Module IV - Racialized Im/mobilities: Transportation, Time, Space
Module V – Violence and Resistance in the Anthropocene City
Module VI - Urban Marronage