WSTP-252 Comparative Black Feminisms

WSTP-252-01 Comparative Black Feminisms

Nadine Ehlers

This course will offer an introduction to comparative black feminisms. We will concentrate on black feminism as it has operated and been articulated as a platform for social debate and resistance within the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. Black feminisms have been placed at the peripheries of dominant Western power/knowledge networks. At the same time, however, these forms of feminism are a reaction and response to dominant ways of feminist knowing – generally figured as white – and demand a critical consciousness of the racial and racist dimensions of dominant western framings of feminist projects.

During the course we will survey both the similarities and differences between these articulations of black feminism – specifically in relation to the historical contexts within which they have arisen. Central to our concerns will be the analysis of the intersectional relationship between theory and practice and between questions of race, gender and power.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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