Critical Social Inquiry 0259 - Feminists of Color Solidarities

Feminists of Color

Spring
2023
1
4.00
Lili Kim

01:00PM-03:50PM M

Hampshire College
335892
R.W. Kern Center 202
lmkSS@hampshire.edu
In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic that laid bare the inequalities of our society and the public execution of George Floyd and other Black Americans, as well as the pandemic anti-Asian American violence, meaningful social and political alliances between communities of color have never been so critically important. This course examines the history of feminists of color solidarities and activisms in their shared fight against racism, sexism, capitalism, and imperialism. The emergence of the U.S. Third World Feminist Left during the 1960s and 1970s saw ending imperialism and colonialism as a necessary part of their fight, and the feminists of color drew inspiration from Third World feminism and decolonization activities. The images of revolutionary Third World women engaged in anti-colonial struggles in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, especially during the Vietnam War era, inspired U.S.-based feminists of color and helped them embrace leftist Third World solidarity politics. Organizations such as the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) in New York city, which grew out of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), brought together Black, Puerto Rican, and Asian American women in the socialist fight to end imperialism, sexism, capitalism, and racism. Utilizing the rich archival sources found in the Sophia Smith Collection (TWWA records, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie papers, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum papers) as well as the Triple Jeopardy newspapers found in the Marshall I. Bloom papers at the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, students will have an opportunity to work to produce a substantial research project. Keywords:history,Woman of color,Feminism,Race,social movements

In/Justice Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. The content of this course deals with issues of Race and Power. Books: Patricia Romney, We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance (Boston: The Feminist Press, 2021) ISBN 9781952177828 Cynthia A. Young, Soul Power: Culture, RadiCcalism, and the Making of U.S. Third World Left (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0-8223-3691-4 Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0-5202-4520-4

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