Race, color, caste, and gender: what's colonialism gotta do with it? This upper division undergraduate course is designed to critically engage with the concepts and theories of race, color, caste and the intersection with gender and sexuality, especially as they arise from, and around the phenomena of racial capitalism, the institution of slavery, and settler-colonialism. From Turtle Island to India, we will study the gendering, sexualizing, classing, casteing, coloring, and racializing that are concurrent to colonialism, both historical and ongoing. Using philosophical, ethnographic, historical, theoretical, and literary, artistic & cinematic cultural texts, students will deconstruct and critique the political, cultural and ideological configurations of colonial militarism critical to the production of the Other, in all its raced, colored, casted and gendered connotations, and the simultaneous construction of the pure and “fragile” Self. Topics will include imperialism and sexual desire/angst; racialization, colonialism, and caste; intersectionality; the relation of fiction and cinema to ideologies of race, color, caste, gender; the gendered, racialized, casted and libidinal representations of colonial nations and their colonized Others; colonial and decolonizing gazes; postcolonialism and decolonialism.

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