This course explores the intersections of race, space and segregation in the United States. Drawing from critical geography and ethnic studies, we will interrogate “space” as something that is neither fixed nor abstract, but rather a register in which powerful ideological and social-economic forces shape how human beings think of and experience their lives, their identities, their sense of history, and their visions for the future. We will begin by exploring the social and institutional forces that created racial and spatial segregation across different places in the US in comparison to other countries such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa. We will then learn about how racial and colonial “others” in the US have been historically “produced” in relation to how spaces have been socially constructed and segregated through laws, policies, and institutional practices. We will end by considering how displaced and segregated racial subalterns have responded to their literal and metaphoric marginalization by engaging in various practices of space-taking and place-(re)making.