Gender, Race, and Colonialism (316-0-70)

Instructors

Haya Al-Noaimi

Meeting Info

Northwestern Qatar Room 2-255: Tues, Su 10:00AM - 11:15AM (AST)

Overview of class

This upper-level, interdisciplinary course explores the ways in which colonial power intersected with race and gender as social constructs during the period of European expansion (1500-1900s) and the effects of such constructions on colonized, and postcolonial societies in the modern period. We will study the relationships between European metropoles and their colonies, focusing on how knowledge was created and transferred alongside people and goods. The second part of the course looks at how colonized people interacted, collaborated, and resisted colonial governments, laws and institutions by exploring how race, gender and class structure interactions between colonizers and the colonized ‘Other'. The aim is to understand how and why social categories of difference are used to inform power structures within colonial and postcolonial contexts in the Global South. By the end of this course, students should gain a deeper understanding of how gender and race intersected in ways that shaped the history of colonialism, its imposition, and by influencing modes of resistance to it.

Registration Requirements

Prerequisites: None

Open to Sophomores and above

Open for cross-registration

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Registration is reserved for sophomore, juniors, and seniors only.