WGS 305 - Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in American Culture

3 CR

Considering issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, or nationality in narrow, isolated examples is impossible and undesirable if we hope to have a fuller understanding of the patterns, realities, and possibilities of identity, power, culture, and politics in American culture. All of these complex and contradictory dimensions contribute to our identities and material realities as well to our place in relationship to social structures and power relationships. We will consider intersections in the past, present, and future including both local and transnational contexts. We will consider how we might move beyond the limits of identity politics toward a radical politics of empowerment, justice, and transformation. (This course is cross listed with AME 305.)

Prerequisite(s): WGS 101W, or AME 201W , or permission of instructor.