SOCI 058B. Black Feminisms

In this course, we will examine the contours of Black women's (womyn's/womxn's) ways of naming, being and knowing, their resistance to gender and race hierarchies, violence, domination, and oppression, and their insistent love, joy, art, and creative practices. We will center black queer feminisms, explore the intersections of race, gender and sexuality with class, region, religious and spiritual practices, generation, space and place; explore black feminist thought and its relationship to womanism and other feminisms; explore the multitude of positionalities of black women (womyn/womxn); examine mediated representations of black women; the commodification of black women's aesthetics, bodies and sexualities, and the resistance to the same; and highlight black women (womyn/womxn) and femme centered spaces and collectives.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for BLST, GSST
Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology

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