WGST 301 Q - Women of Color (3 credits)

This course explores the complex politics of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories in the lives of women of color in the U.S. It familiarizes students with the experiences of Black, Latina/Chicana, Asian/Pacific Islander, indigenous, and Muslim women. Students examine key themes in women of color feminisms, including representation, stigmatization, violence, intersectionality, economic and reproductive justice, queerness, and agency and activism. The class also analyzes the history of the construction of the categories women of color and whiteness. F, S.