Women, Race, and Social Justice

Undergraduate

This course examines race, racialization, racism, and anti-racism in Canada today. Students consider how racial and ethnic identities are created and experienced in conjunction with other identities such as gender, sexuality, social class, and (dis)ability as well as social justice activism that challenges the personal, social, political, and economic inequities based on these identities. This course challenges the essentializing of the category of 'woman' while examining how race and gender intersect in women's lives. Topics may include: colonization and systemic racism in Canada, white privilege, Indigenous womanhood, Islamophobia and Muslim women, resisting anti-Black racism, allyship and anti-racism, and the social construction of race. (Prerequisite: ICWG-1000 or permission of the instructor).