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Reading Seminar in Social Science: Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law

Yellow road sign featuring two figures walking together. Background is a border fence and blue sky.

Roadside sign at the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the topics covered in this course is illegal immigration. (Image courtesy of Steev Hise.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

17.908

As Taught In

Spring 2007

Level

Undergraduate

Course Features

Course Description

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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