Black Feminist Theory

Black Feminist Theory centers praxis, justice, and liberation in the production of knowledge. This graduate level course engages writings in black feminist theory to critically interrogate social inequality at the intersections of racism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. In this course, we will focus on the histories of these systems in a global context and how black feminist theory challenges traditional modes of knowledge production and hegemonic claims that reproduce these structures. Specifically, we will explore themes of epistemic violence, colonialism and racial capitalism, social movements, reproductive justice, and carcerality from diverse black feminist perspectives in sociology and beyond.