Mar 28, 2024  
Graduate School Course Catalog 2017-2018 
    
Graduate School Course Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HISG 5522 - The Black Female Body in American Culture (3)


This course examines the constructions, representations, forms of appropriation and liberation of the Black female body in cross-cultural, historical and contemporary perspective.  It will take an interdisciplinary approach to interrogate the ways that the treatment, constructions and representations of the Black female body has intersected with the distribution of social power and resources.  Particular attention will be paid to the ways that the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, class, sexuality and culture.


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