Professor Megan Ybarra
Email mybarra@uw.edu
Critical Race and Postcolonial Geographies | Winter 2016 Mondays 2:30-5:20PM | SMI 111
Course Description: What is the relationship between racial formations, space and power? How do racial
imaginaries shape our relationship to place? In this seminar, our central concern will be to bring together insights
from comparative ethnic studies, critical race theory, and postcolonial theory to enrich our understanding of
human geography. We will look at the use of ethnic and racial formations as a bridge between cultural and
political geography in everyday lives and state formations, with an overview of how colonial and settler colonial
ideologies shape racial formations in the postcolony.
