Introduction to Native and Indigenous Feminisms

Settler colonialism is a structure that aims to dispossess, erase, and replace Indigenous peoples in ways that are both racialized and gendered. Throughout this course, students will become familiar with the role Indigenous Feminisms have played in responding to settler colonial policies, violences, and erasures. Students will become cognizant of the contributions Indigenous Feminists make to art, literature, theory, and organizing work. Students will trace a genealogy of Indigenous Feminisms while attending to the debates that have both punctuated and propelled its theoretical and practical application. This introductory lecture course is part of the American Studies Questions series, offering a gateway to the AMST concentration, and has no prerequisites.