Black Studies 335 - Schooling Bodies/Blkness

[US] This course examines the interplay of Blackness, embodiment, and schooling. Conceptualizing schooling as a hierarchical organizing and socializing process, the course examines how schooling sculpts, appraises, and understands Black bodies, behavior, and performance of identity in and beyond formal educational spaces. Course participants examine distinctions between schooling and education as well as investigate the behind-the-scene politics of lived educational experiences. Framing the Black body as a contested and potential-filled site, the course also explores how different pedagogical forms can serve as interventions to schooling and expand possibilities for understanding and assigning meaning to Blackness, bodies, and Black embodiment.

Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Professor Hill.