Race, Class and Gender (250-0-1)

Instructors

Silyane Larcher

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-435: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

This course examines how race, class, gender, and sexuality function as interlocking structures of power that shape social identities, life opportunities, and political struggles. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship from classic Black feminist texts to recent intersectional scholarship, but also historical and sociological analysis, the course asks what it means to analyze people not as "merely raceless, sexless workers, but for whom racial and sexual oppression are significant determinants in their working/economic lives," as the Combahee River Collective famously insists in their famous 1977 statement. Students will use this insight to explore inequality across multiple arenas—work and the economy, organizations, families and reproduction, politics and public policy, social movements, neighborhoods and cities, and the regulation of identity and sexuality —and to think critically about how intersectional analysis can inform both research and contemporary struggles for social justice.

Class Attributes

Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: PRE-REG: Reserved for Black Studies majors & minors.