Course Code: CULT 288
Academic Year: 2025-2026
In this course, we will examine how gender, race, and ethnicity are socially, culturally, and historically constructed yet lived experientially. In particular, we will highlight how these categories are legally and discursively constructed and experienced in relation torather than independent fromone another. This course will ask: How can we recognize differences such as race, class, sexuality, dis/ability, and nationality as a means to provide a nuanced analysis regarding the nature of sexist oppression globally? We will thus investigate how globalization, the afterlives of chattel slavery, and ongoing settler colonialism create social inequalities. By critically analyzing media, technology, legislation, the arts and more, we will investigate how colonial power relations produce varying gendered categories, thereby linking decolonization movements with emancipation from heteropatriarchal rule. We will thus interrogate categories of gender, culture, and sex as they emerge and develop alongside processes of racialization, colonization, nationalism, and global capital accumulation.