17.908 Reading Seminar in Social Science: Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law, Spring 2007
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Ghachem, Malick
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Alternative title
Reading Seminar in Social Science: Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law
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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.
Date issued
2007-06Other identifiers
17.908-Spring2007
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Keywords
race, criminal justice, politics, criminal law, procedure, punishment, race-crime nexus, capital punishment, felon disenfranchisement, war on drugs, sentencing disaprity, illegal immigration, japanese internment, WWII, religion, profiling, preemptive strategy, war on terror, aliens, citizens, supreme court, bar