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Land, Race and Property Rights
Class Term:
Fall Term 2018-2019
Catalog Number:
5298
Class Number:
30448
Class Schedule:
Monday
10:30 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
Room:
LAW G46
Professor
Lecture
Credits:
3 (3 Contact, 0 Field)
Graduation Requirements:
"W" Writing
Priority:
General Enrollment Course
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses
Grading Details
Attendance is required. Student performance and evaluation will be based on a paper (75%) and class participation (25%). Students will be required to read and to participate in classroom discussion, and conduct a presentation on their research paper topic. The research paper may be used to fulfill the “W” Writing Requirement.
Description
Property law has shaped the history of racialization in the United States. The aim of this course is to capture today’s complex landscape of race and property law while at the same time reassessing the historical understanding of this nexus, which has resulted in a divided nation where people of color struggle with the effects of intergenerational dispossession and exclusion. This course will reflect on this history through familiar property concepts, such as exclusion, access, acquisition and distribution, conquest, expropriation and dispossession. Through a race-centric lens, the course will explore these concepts by unpacking policies, practices and laws that have shaped the racialization of property, such as the spatial regime of Jim Crow to racially restrictive covenants to urban renewal to redlining, exclusionary zoning and the subprime mortgage crisis. Students will have the opportunity to learn from a variety of guest speakers, including local judges, elected officials, public-interest attorneys, real estate developers, real estate attorneys, social activists and planning commission members who have played (and still play) a significant role in shaping race, law, property and public policy in the Pittsburgh region.