BWS 250 - Race Gender Knowledge

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What is race? What is gender? What is intersectionality? —Why do these questions matter? This course will explore race and gender, and the intersections thereof, as a knowledge-power regime—that is, how our understanding of race and gender, which is typically thought of as natural fixed categories, produce social inequalities through a set of assumptions, claims, and prescriptions about what is normal/abnormal, superior/inferior, and/or legitimate/illegitimate. Thus, this course explores the modern development and critical interventions into racial and gender knowledge, ranging from European settler/colonialism to the emergence of Africana and Gender Studies’ various counter-institutional and -cultural knowledge paradigms, particularly those that employ intersectionality or other intersectional frameworks.