Fall 2020  |  GWSS 8260 Section 001: Seminar: Race, Representation and Resistance (33776)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Wed 11:15AM - 01:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Race, racialization, racial justice as related to representation/struggles for social/economic justice. Intersectional analysis of power, politics, ideology/identity. Queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, critical sex/body positive approaches. prereq: Grad student
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
In this course we will examine the multiple ways that black women writers, scholars, activists, and playwrights have theorized space, spatiality, and resistance. We will explore how diverse women of African descent have constructed and reimagined space and identity in the context of survival in different parts of the world. One key theme that will be explored is how ?blackness? as both a resistant discourse and a performative identity has shaped black women's engagements with social movements, public art and theatre. Black women's place-making efforts will be considered as well as their efforts to reimagine community through multiple forms of political agency. This course offers a provocative combination of contemporary black feminist ethnography, critical biographies, cultural and literary criticism, and plays. We will examine the intersections between black queer studies and black feminism, while emphasizing radical re-thinkings of identity, sexual agency, and resistance. We will learn to critically assess the new epistemological and methodological approaches that black women have developed, paying close attention to how the workings of time, space, and place have factored into the writing and theorizing of new classic, yet understudied texts. We will explore new writings in black feminist internationalism and black feminist post-colonialism, as well as new histories that have been written about black women's experiences in the U.S. during the Cold War period, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary urban social movements. Reading List Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006) by Katherine McKittrick Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2007) by Carole Boyce Davies Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War (2011) by Dayo Gore Pedagogies of Crossing (2006) by M. Jacqui Alexander Muslim Girls and the Other France (2006) by Trica Keaton Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2003) by Roderick Ferguson Red Letter Plays (2001) by Suzi Lori Parks Essays by Mae Henderson Essays by Evelyn Hammonds Eslanda Robeson: Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (2013) by Barbara Ransby Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (2010) Les Blancs: The Last Collected Plays of Lorraine Hansberry (1972) The Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance?A New History of the Civil Rights Movement (2010) by Danielle McGuire Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (1987) Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance (2013) by Zenzele Isoke. Our Sister Killjoy (1997) by Ama Ata Aidoo. A Culture of Place (2009) by bell hooks
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33776/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 August 2013

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