| Title: | Legal Borderlands |
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| Course Section Number: | HIS-200-02 |
| Department: | History |
| Description: | The periphery of the United States is not only made up of physical borderlands but also of legal interstitial zones, places that test the reach of American sovereignty. This discussion-based course will look at places where American law bumps up against other defining markers, the contact-zones that challenge the prevalent legal paradigms. We will examine how these areas define what constitutes an American; how the government makes specific identities within its jurisdiction visible and invisible. Topics we will cover include: statelessness and denaturalization, American extraterritorial courts in China, gender and sexuality under the law, the American Guano Islands, outlawing "coolies," the insular cases and citizen-subjects, and Guantanamo Bay, not to mention the making and unmaking of physical borderlands around the United States. Meets the Diversity Requirement for the PPE major. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | May 11, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
02/16/2021-05/04/2021 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Hays Science, Room 003
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| Faculty: | Kunze, Savitri |
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