ENROLL

Eva Posfay

Prerequisite: French 103 or equivalent

Harry M Williams

This course treats the struggle for racial justice from World War II through the 1960s. Histories, journalism, music, and visual media illustrate black and white elites and grassroots people allied in this momentous epoch that ranges from a southern integrationist vision to northern Black Power militancy. The segregationist response to black freedom completes the study.

Amna Khalid

The objective of this course is to analyse the historical institutions, practices and traditions that define the position of women in India. We consider the various ways in which the trope of the Goddess has been used for and by Indian women in colonial and post-colonial India; the colonial state's supposed rescue of Indian women; the position and role of European women in colonial India; how women's bodies come to embody and signify community honor and become sites of communal contest. We explore the making of Mother India; the connection between nation, territory and the female form; and the ways in which women have been represented in history as well as Indian cinema. 

Mike Flynn

Meera Sehgal

Michelle V Rowley

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.

Michelle V Rowley

Caribbean Queer Matters invites students to think about the complexities, contradictions and activist possibilities of gender non-conforming and same-gender desiring individuals in the English-speaking Caribbean. The course will serve as an incubator where students will develop the skills to understand and analyze these non-U.S. contexts, all the while foregrounding attention to the local, regard for difference and a commitment to issues of justice. The course will draw on a range of genres and disciplinary vantage points. Students will engage film, biographical narratives, music, critical texts, poetry, as well as the fields of Caribbean Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and LGBT Studies.