Black Feminisms Beyond Borders

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

From the U.S. to Brazil, Black women’s voices, movements, and visions have long reshaped struggles for freedom throughout the hemisphere. This course centers the Americas as a vital and interconnected site of Black feminist thought by tracing the transnational and intraregional migrations, exchanges, and solidarities that have forged hemispheric networks of critique, creativity, and resistance. Together, we will curate and extend these connections by placing thinkers, artists, activists, and movements from across the Americas in dialogue to explore how Black women have looked to one another, drawn from shared histories, and confronted overlapping systems of enslavement, colonialism, heteropatriarchal racial capitalism, and state violence. The course is thus an invitation for students to participate in ongoing dialogues that animate Black feminist thought and practice beyond borders.