Anti-Black Racism: Women & Girls

Catalog description

Taught by SKSM. "Where does this disdain of global Blackness come from?" Many historians root the ills of this philosophical racism to the eighteenth and nineteenth century Enlightenment writings like those of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson, Georg Hegel, etc. This course will engage the anti-black racism negative ascriptions or stamp that has been signified upon Blackness today. Thus, to engage in efforts to recover Black materiality from racial opacity. Utilizing the narrative of Liza Bramlett, Fannie Lou Hamer's grandmother, who was a sexually exploited and the unnamed Black woman who was publicly-strip searched on the streets of Baltimore by the Eastern District Police, the black women raped by Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw and Susanna from the Apocrypha. This course will illustrate historical and contemporary inhumane acts against Black women and girls. Students MUST contact the instructor for approval prior to registering for this course. Evaluation Method: Term paper, daily assignments, presentation, pre-assignment and class participation. Intended Audience: Mdiv, MASC, DMin. Course is available from 1.5-3 units and meets daily, 1/22/19-1/26/19, from 8am-5pm at SKSM. [Introduction to Ethics & First and Second Testament; 30 max enrollment]