Today's class

• A brief overview of what we'll be covering in this unit
• Background on Sylvia Wynter
• "No Humans Involved": major themes, the section on racism and humans

Knowledge, Power, and the Human

• How definitions of the Human are intimately entangled with the exercise of colonial power
• How institutions of higher education have sometimes perpetuated and sometimes challenged colonial power
• How feminist theory....

Major questions:

• The terms that govern the incorporation of feminist knowledge

• Knowledge production committed to challenging structures of subordination?

• Split between Black feminist theory and Black women's lives inside universities

• Feminism can be both very bad and very good...

• Relationship between colonial power and feminism

• Feminisms and institutions of higher education discourse...

  • We ask these questions to gain a deeper understanding of colonial power
  • The knowledge one needs to practice a liberatory feminism

Sylvia Wynter

• Anti-colonial movements have shaped her career and the effects on universities
• Grew up in Jamaica
• College in London in Madrid, when she began to write anti-colonial projects