This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
Roadside sign at the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the topics covered in this course is illegal immigration. (Image courtesy of Steev Hise.)
Prof. Malick Ghachem
17.908
Spring 2007
Undergraduate
This course surveys the relationship between race and crime in the United States, with a special emphasis on the role this relationship has played in the development of American ideas about citizenship and nationhood.
Malick Ghachem. 17.908 Reading Seminar in Social Science: Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law, Spring 2007. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), https://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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