Latina and Latino Social Movements (342-0-1)

Topic

Black Brown Intersections

Instructors

John David Marquez
847 491 5122
1860 Campus Dr Crowe 5-135

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 301: Tues, Thurs 5:00PM - 6:20PM

Overview of class

This course examines and theorizes the intersection, relationship, and significance of Blackness and Brownness as signifiers of racial difference in western modernity. Outside of this critical race component, this course focuses on how persons racialized as Black or Brown relate to one another in everyday life, in intellectual or creative endeavors, or in political mobilizations. A major focal point will be examining how and why the phrasing "Black-Brown" or "Black and Brown" has become so commonplace in political vernacular to signify precarity and/or democracy's discontents. We'll debate, for example, the question of what does it mean that Brown is so commonly sutured on to Black as such?

Learning Objectives

Learning about black-brown intersections

Class Materials (Required)

No materials needed

Class Attributes

Interdisciplinary Distro-rules apply
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area
Ethics & Values Distro Area