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Jul 30, 2025
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WGS 352 - Leadership in the Era of BLM 1.0
In the contemporary political context of the Movement for Black Lives, students will explore the conceptualization of leadership. Since the inception of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2013, there has been much debate about the movement’s leadership formation and practice from both avid supporters and detractors of black political struggles. A loosely-based network of grassroots organizations formed by black feminist and queer activists, some have found the leadership of Black Lives Matter illegible, and thus suggest its ineffectiveness, while others have perceived the movement’s leadership “illegibility” as a strength. In this course, we will examine popular discourse pertaining to the leadership of BLM as well as historical and contemporary scholarship on the forms and functions of black leadership in order to think about, discuss, and write about the following questions: (1) How does one come to identify and define leadership? Put differently, what makes leadership legible to you? (2) What are the implications of il/legible leadership for black political struggles and black identities? (3) How might the concept of leadership be differentiated and/or formed along the intersecting axes of race, gender, sexuality, and class? Group I (Diversity) (Writing)
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