Coloniality and Modernity

Description

This unit introduces students to theories and practices for the analysis of race, gender, and settler colonialism. Engaging with Black queer feminism, queer critiques and Indigenous methodologies, students will learn strategies and concepts that challenge Western ideas about love, family, sex, gender, and identity. Students will become familiar with standpoints that view the origins of race, gender and heterosexuality as connected, and as integral to capitalism and colonialism as global projects. This unit teaches strategies and legacies of resistance, emphasizing the complexity and productivity of coalition and solidarity between Indigenous and Black, immigrant and refugee, and queer and transgender activists globally.