Decolonizing Gender, Race, and Nation

3 credits · Undergraduate

(1.5 hrs Lecture | 1.5 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course explores decolonization through contributions by Indigenous, feminist, and postcolonial academics, activists and artists/cultural producers to better understand what it means to inhabit Turtle Island. Notions of nationhood and citizenship are troubled using an interlocking feminist frame of analysis/praxis with particular attention to intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. As class participants, students learn how to locate ourselves in our own differing relations to Turtle Island. Key concepts include (but are not limited to) home, belonging, colonization, Indigeneity, sovereignty, exile, diaspora, nation, nationalism, multiculturalism, marginalization, exclusion, citizenship, cultural activism, democracy, and resistance.