Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 392RM - S-Black Feminist Research

This seminar studies a range of Black feminist research methods including but not limited to storytelling, ethnography, surveys, oral history, literary analysis, and archival research. Students will investigate foundational concepts in Black feminisms, formulate a research question, and engage Black feminist methodologies as a questioning of dominant modes of knowledge production. Participants will complicate established feminist, womanist, and anti-racist readings of race and gender oppression; examine how Black feminists discuss standpoint theory, Black nationalism, Black liberalism, liberal feminism, black Marxism and materialist feminist thought; and study Black women's trajectory as researchers through their praxis and pedagogies. Students will develop a research project and complete a research paper.