ASRC 6207 - Black Feminist Theories: Sexuality, Creativity, and Power

(crosslisted)
(also COML 6465, ENGL 6207, FGSS 6207)

Fall. 4 credits.

C. Boyce Davies.

This courses examines black feminist theories, placing particular emphasis on the cross-cultural experiences of women as expressed both theoretically and creatively. It follows the chronologies and variations of modern black feminisms, beginning with the U.S. articulations and moving toward how particular feminist positions are constructed and theorized in other locations across the African diaspora such as Black British feminism, Caribbean feminism, African feminism. Thus we will explore the various theories and texts within their sociopolitical and geographical frames and locations, analyzing these as appropriate against or in relation to a range of feminist activisms and movements.