AP/HUMA 3302 3.00

Hood Feminisms: Black Women's Fugitivity

This course centres "the nowhere of the ghetto and the nowhere of utopia" (Hartman, xiii) to understand the social, historical and political contexts of the wayward practices of Black Women. It uses key issues and debates in contemporary Black Feminist Thought to grapple with the conundrum of social dispossession that around the way Black women experience while simultaneously being the "radical thinkers [who] tirelessly imagined other ways to live" (Hartman xv) that often set in motion larger movements on whose margins they are later left.