AMCS 420 - Gender and Ethnicity

Unit(s): 4

A historical overview of racism and sexism as they affect women of color, focusing on issues in which racism and sexism intersect, e.g. affirmative action, abortion, sterilization, violence against women, and other issues.

Co-requisite(s): Goals and Learning Objectives
Understand, critically analyze, and apply key concepts, theories, and forms of knowledge production
that have been central to Black feminism, women of color feminism, and third world women of color
feminism
Analyze and assess the visions, goals, and original analysis that women of color scholars, activists,
and activist-scholars generated
Understand the unique contexts, the different experiences, as well as the shared struggles and
visions for the future from which women of color feminist analysis and commitments emerged
Assess the ongoing work and contributions of Black feminist thought and women of color feminism
within contemporary contexts, and work to build connections with one’s own lived experiences
Critically analyze the ongoing struggles, approaches to movement building, and forms of resistance
that women of color feminist activists and activist-scholars are engaged in while critically assessing
the structural and ideological inequities that these movements are responding to
Build skills for assessing, making sense of, analyzing, and responding to the materials generated by
women of color feminists while situating these materials in relevant historical, political, social, and
cultural contexts
Design and implement a project that engages with and applies the theories, ideologies, principles,
and practices of women of color feminisms Crosslisted: WGS 420
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Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option