AFRS 182 - Centering Black Women and Girls’ Lives

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

(Same as AMST 182, ANTH 182, EDUC 182, SOCI 182, and WMST 182) Vassar College, as one of the seven sisters, has a long history of being at the forefront of controversial and critical conversations about issues that confront women’s lives. In line with that history, this course contributes to this important tradition by expanding and extending the historical and contemporary discourses on women and intersectionality that have become so vibrant on Vassar’s campus and beyond. Specifically, it provides students with a critical space to consider and be challenged by how they define, understand, think about, talk about and write at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, spirituality, art and literature in the U.S. Colette Cann, Luis Inoa, Candice Lowe Swift, and Samuel Speers.

Second six-week course.

One 3-hour period.