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CS92PROD
Black Feminist and Trans Theories of the Hu/Man

FGSS 306
Fall 2022
Section: 01  
This course may be repeated for credit.
Crosslisting: AFAM 304
Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, Queer Studies

This seminar provides an introduction to Black feminist and trans theories' interventions into the modern Western category of the human and its violent exclusions. Since their inception, Black feminist and trans theories have brought attention to the violence of what Sylvia Wynter has called our "genres of the human," and in so doing, have laid bare the very preoccupations of power that condemn the non-white, non-cisgender being to sub-Human status and death in the material and discursive economies of racial capitalism. Students will develop broad knowledge of Black feminist and trans theories' provocations regarding the intersecting identity categories that organize our world, and will be encouraged to develop their own critical approaches that are attentive to the hegemony of racialized gender and its attendant violences.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS FGSS
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Student Option
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM)(CSCT)(FGSS)
Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above

Last Updated on MAR-29-2024
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