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- The Cover Image: A Surviving 1890 Census Page
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- License and Rights
- Download and Remix
The Course
Module 1: Origins of Race and (Un-)Belonging
Unit 1.1: The Idea of Race, Ideal Categories, and Sociological Inquiry
- Case Study: "What Census Calls Us" — A Historical Timeline of Racial Categories
- Case Study: Lived Experience and the Making of Hispanic — An Exercise Drawn from NPR Code Switch
Unit 1.2: Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Making of Citizens
- Case Study: The Contested Legacy of Margaret Sanger
- Case Study: Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization
Unit 1.3: Migration, Borders, and the Politics of Exclusion
- Case Study: Drawing Deportation — Reading Children's Art as Ethnographic Evidence
- Case Study: The Long Arc of U.S. Immigration Law — Comparing Three Institutional Timelines
Unit 1.4: Race, Education, and Nation-Building
- Case Study: The Black Teacher Archive and the Practice of Fugitive Pedagogy
- Case Study: Affirmative Action from Origins to SFFA v. Harvard
Module 2: Theories on Race and Ethnicity
Unit 2.1: Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory
- Case Study: Tracking the Anti-"CRT" Wave — A Policy-Analysis Activity
- Case Study: The "Intersectionality Wars" — Tracing a Concept from Scholarship to Slogan
Unit 2.2: Double-Consciousness, the Veil, and the Color Line
- Case Study: Visualizing the Color Line — Du Bois's Paris Exposition Data Portraits
- Case Study: The African American Odyssey — A Quest for Full Citizenship
Unit 2.3: Whiteness, Hegemony, and Histories from Below
- Case Study: Settled Expectations on Trial — The Voting Rights Act after Louisiana v. Callais
- Case Study: The 'Model Minority' — Hegemony as Compliment
Unit 2.4: Body, Embodiment, and Cultural Production
- Case Study: The CROWN Act — Race, Hair, and Workplace Discrimination
- Case Study: Stonewall Forever — Memory, Movement, and the Queer of Color Archive
Module 3: Systemic Racism and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Unit 3.1: Colorblind Ideologies, Silence, and Racism of Omission
- Case Study: The Removed Exhibit — Public History and the Racism of Omission
- Case Study: Saying Everything, Changing Nothing — Corporate Racial Statements, 2020–2026
Unit 3.2: Policing, Prisons, and Racialized Surveillance
- Case Study: Visualizing Abolition — Reading Public Art Against the Carceral State
- Case Study: Counting the Carceral State — A Data-Analysis Activity
Unit 3.3: Property, Law, and Dispossession
- Case Study: Returning Bruce's Beach — Dispossession and Its Remedies
- Case Study: Predatory Governance in Detroit — The Property Tax Foreclosure Crisis
Unit 3.4: Machine Biases, Innovation, and Technology
- Case Study: The Coded Gaze on Trial — Gender Shades and the Wrongful Arrests
- Case Study: COMPAS and the Fairness Wars — Auditing the Algorithm Yourself
Module 4: Black Geographies and Racial Capitalism
Unit 4.1: Neighborhood, Gentrification, and Placemaking
- Case Study: Mapping Gentrification in Your Own Backyard — Reading the New York Typology Against Lived Experience
- Case Study: The Manifesto as Instrument — Auditing and Reimagining a Plan with BlackSpace
Unit 4.2: Food Justice, Labor, and Sustainability
- Case Study: Food Apartheid and the Bronx — Karen Washington's Borough
- Case Study: The Fair Food Program — Can Workers Govern a Supply Chain?
Unit 4.3: Disaster, Disparity, and Displacement
- Case Study: Katrina at Twenty — The Disaster That Is Still Happening
- Case Study: Hurricane María and the Politics of Counting the Dead
Unit 4.4: Segregation, Homeownership, and Housing Equity
- Case Study: Reading the Red Lines — A Gallery Walk Through Mapping Inequality
- Case Study: Testing the Market — Long Island Divided and the Appraisal-Gap Cases
Module 5: Movements and Resistance
Unit 5.1: Police Violence, the Courts, and Urban Uprising
- Case Study: Los Angeles, 1992 — Anatomy of an Uprising
- Case Study: Five Years After George Floyd — The Reform Ledger
Unit 5.2: Performance, Indigeneity, and Sovereignty
- Case Study: P FKN R at the Super Bowl — Language, Colony, and the Halftime Stage
- Case Study: Indians Everywhere — A Virtual Gallery Walk
Unit 5.3: The Tulsa Race Massacre, Black Wall Street, and Reparations
- Case Study: The Road to Repair — Evaluating Tulsa's Reparations, 2024–2026
- Case Study: Reparations Toolkits in Practice — Comparing Frameworks
Unit 5.4: The 1619 Project, Backlash, and Abolitionist Futures
- Case Study: The Backlash in Documents — From the Historians' Letter to the Gag Orders
- Case Study: Writing Themselves In — The Colored Conventions and the Power of Storytelling
Module 6: Archives, Racial Temporalities, and Beyond
Unit 6.1: Silence, Access, and Epistemic Justice
- Case Study: The Silence You Can Date — The 1890 Census
- Case Study: Rewriting the Finding Aid — A Reparative Description Audit
Unit 6.2: Shadow Archives, Fragments, and the Practice of Diaspora
- Case Study: Ashley's Sack — An Object Reads Three Generations
- Case Study: Reading the Runaway Ad — Along and Against the Grain
Unit 6.3: Storytelling, Empowerment, and Collective Memory
- Case Study: The Five Demands at Fifty-Plus — A Movement in Its Own Archive
- Case Study: Record One Story — An Oral History Practicum
Unit 6.4: Chronopolitics, Racial Time, and the Critique of American Progress
- Case Study: Reading American Progress — The Cover Image as Chronopolitics
- Case Study: A Community Futures Protocol
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