GLOS3456: Race, Class, and Gender in the Global South

This course is designed as a historically grounded, transnational investigation of the connections between race, class, and gender in the Global South. Our goal is to understand how embodying certain identities in a racially divided, economically unequal, and gendered world can delimit one?s ability to move or even exist in countries that were affected by colonization. This course will address a range of topics, including anti-blackness, transphobia, casteism, femicide, and poverty in specific key locations in the Global South whose history and social configuration can help us grasp how race, class, and gender are linked and how these links impact different communities. We will begin with a few theoretical texts about colonialism and its impact on modern conceptualizations of race, class, and gender. We will access cultural artifacts (literature, music, film, visual arts) and analyze sociohistorical events that illustrate how race, class, and gender intersect. In acknowledgment of the historical colonial power structures predicated on notions of supremacy that have profoundly impacted the communities under study, this course is grounded in the principles of black feminist pedagogy, which champions radical vulnerability, transformative education, and the valorization of lived experience. This approach rejects the marginalization of experiential knowledge in favor of established scientific authority, fosters collective decision-making, and transforms the classroom into a dynamic forum for shared discourse and innovation.

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