Topics in Latina and Latino Social and Political Issues (392-0-2)
Topic
Violence the Body and Resistance
Instructors
Elvia Mendoza
Crowe Hall, Room 1144
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-425: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM
Overview of class
This course centers the body as a site of knowledge to analyze the ways formations of violence are mediated by race, sexuality, and gender. Students will engage with different forms of texts ranging from court trial transcripts to novels to interrogate the sociopolitical practices that inscribe differential meanings onto the body. We will explore what constitutes the body, how it is constructed, experienced, and re/claimed, as we work towards a more expansive understanding of what is violence and what is read as violent. Privileging the black and brown body as an archive and as a site of knowing, we will discuss how the body, through individual and collective struggles, informs acts of resistance.
Class Materials (Required)
Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
Class Attributes
Interdisciplinary Distro-rules apply
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area
Ethics & Values Distro Area