Introduction to Women of Color Eco-Feminisms: Feminist Intersections with Other

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This course is designed to familiarize you with the major concepts at the intersection of environmental studies, animal studies, and food politics particularly as they are troubled by racialization, capitalism, colonialism, and sexism. We will survey contemporary and classic texts from a wide array of disciplinary, political, and personal perspectives. Through readings and discussions, you will be introduced to key theoretical concepts such as, environmental racism, slow violence, racial ecologies, total liberation, settler colonialism and racial capitalism. These topics will allow for critical examination of the connection?s human, non-human animals, and the earth have with various struggles.