2016-17 Academic Catalog

When sociologist Dorothy Smith coined the phrase "The Everyday World as Problematic," she set about to argue for the importance of theorizing from one's everyday life. In this course we will explore the ways in which black feminists have used the everyday as a point of departure for their theorizing. We will draw on the many ways in black feminists produce knowledge (e.g. critical texts, fiction, plays, music, poetry). Further, as we examine how black feminists have theorized the "everyday," we will engage the many valences of the word "problematic," as a thing to be studied and as a locus of difficulty.