BLKST 309 - Blackness at the Intersections

This course examines intersectionality as a theoretical framework, a methodological approach, and a tool for activists. Students will learn to interrogate the complex and varied ways that intersectionality has been used by scholars and activists to understand the relationships among intersecting forms of marginalization and privilege, as well as its limitations. Students will explore how gender, disability, racialization, language, sexuality, sex, class, and nation articulate and co-constitute one another. Students will be challenged to apply course concepts to thinking about the complexities of identity formation beyond the language of intersectionality, and to discover what individuals, communities, and societies lose and gain in the pursuit.