<p>Seminar, three hours. Consideration of the deep history of racialized displacement in Los Angeles to generate new lines of critique and possibility into the contemporary struggle over displacement. Study engages in a case-study approach to explore the histories of race, gender, sovereignty, conquest, property, public policy, commons, class, and economies of shelter. Letter grading.</p>

Public Affairs

Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs

Public Affairs Schoolwide Programs

PUB AFF 123 - History and Public Policy

History and Public Policy

Locate, examine, critique, and utilize municipal archival materials to understand the everyday texture of complex problems of social, political, and material inequality. 

Produce written historical inquiries intended for non-academic audiences. 

Construct historical context for public policies affecting housing insecurity, homelessness, economies of shelter, public land, and criminalized labor.

General Catalog

History and Public Policy

PUB AFF 123

4 units