ClassInfo - Spring 2021 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes

Spring 2021 | GWSS 1915 Section 001: Trauma and the White Racial Frame: Disrupting Whiteness and White Body Supremacy in Everyday Life (66462)

Instructor(s): Zenzele Isoke
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: Freshman Seminar
Online Course
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021

Wed 11:15AM - 01:45PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (11 of 20 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: This class will trace trauma as it was passed down from one European body to another beginning with Middle Ages, imported to the New World by Colonists, then based down by many generations of people including African Americans, First-Nations peoples, and white Americans. One of the basic premises of this course is that psychosocial wounds of white body supremacy in the United States impedes ethical reasoning and decision making in society. Consequently, most Americans routinely reinforce the power of whiteness and white supremacy to detriment of other members of society, the social environments that people interact in, and society as a whole. This course will educate students about the socio-cultural wounds of racial trauma in the United States, toward the aim of, building personal and interpersonal resilience at school, work, and other settings. Students will develop skills to recognize and disrupt white body supremacy in order to foster racial justice, equity, and diversity in broader society.
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