Indigenous and Third World Feminist Thought and Praxis

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours. Examination of social constructions and intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in relation to ideologies and systems of power and oppression. Provides theoretical and historical foundation for understanding Black, Indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian-American, and Arab/Muslim Feminist thought, practice, and issues, transnational configurations of race, gender, class, sexuality, and empire. Engagement with pedagogical tools to explore Indigenous, Women of Color, and Third World Feminist thought and praxis throughout history and in the present. Study of racialized and classed gender and sexual violence, and processes for collective healing, transformative, and restorative justice. P/NP or letter grading.