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Richard L Morrill
GEOG 342
Seattle Campus
Geographies of social, political, and economic inequality. Focus is usually on North American cities. Examines the theoretical underpinning of inequality. Explores topics such as the spatial distribution of wealth and poverty, the geographies of exclusion, and discrimination in paid employment and housing.
Class description
The first part of the course deals with the basic roots of inequality--biological, legal, historical, environmental, political, and introduces the geographic consequence of inequality.
The next portion concentrates on social inequalities, the courses and patterns of racial inequality (segregation), and linguistic and religious discrimination.
Economic inequality--the geography of poverty and wealth--is the subject of the next portion. Both regional inequality and inequality within the city are studied, and programs to alleviate poverty are evaluated.
The final topic concerns injustice in the spatial allocation of public and private resources.
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