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DIVSM-3000-17: ‘Tryin’ to get Free’: Foundations and Futures of Intersectionality

Spring 2020

Subject: Diversity Studies - Seminar
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 21, 2020 — May 08, 2020
Meetings: Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC5
Instructor: Rekia Jibrin

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 11/17

Description:

Representation, equity, diversity, and inclusion are all words that characterize contemporary perspectives on racial, gender, economic, and other forms of social justice.  Cutting across all justice-oriented movements is another keyword: intersectionality.  Many identify as having an intersectional approach, but not everyone shares an understanding of what the term means, its historical origins, and present-day debates about it. By the end of this course, students will develop deeper historical, philosophical and political literacies of diversity and inclusion through the lens of intersectionality.  While this course is structured by historical, theoretical, and philosophical texts produced by peoples in struggle globally, it centers how Black women have engaged such thinking, transnationally.  By the end of this course, students will develop representational pieces that situate their own evolving relationship to intersectionality historically.   

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