Women and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation

WOMGEN 1471 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Black people around the world have long drawn connections between their struggles and those of other marginalized groups, forming powerful solidarities that cross national and cultural boundaries. This course explores how Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, and African Americans have built transnational alliances for a range of political and cultural purposes, with particular attention to the roles that women, and gendered forms of resistance have played in shaping these connections. From anti-colonial movements to Black feminist internationalism, we will explore how gender and sexuality shape the ways solidarity is imagined, performed, and sustained. Through case studies in visual art, music, and literature, the course investigates the histories, aesthetics, and ideas that have animated Black transnational movements, and how these expressions challenge dominant narratives of power, identity, and liberation.