Sylvia Winter Recap

• Systems of knowledge shape the way humans know and perceive themselves as human
  • Also involved int eh production of non-humans
• Discourses of "race" as a biological fact make these distinctions between "humans" and "non-humans" appear as if they are grounded in nature
• The task of Black studies must be to rewrite knowledge in order to develop and support new practices of human being

Grace Hong

• Really cool person
• Scholarship focuses on WOC feminism
• Interested in the ways in which WOC feminism critiques what it means to be human, and capitalism's division of labor
• How WOC feminism been in dialogue with Black feminism
• Multiple genealogies of all different types of WOC feminism
• Strong emphasis on comparative racialization
• BOOKS**:**
  • The Ruptures of American Capital
  • Death Beyond Disavowal
    • How feminist + queer authors memorialize the deaths of those considered valueless by dominant culture

Major Topics in Hong's Essay

• The role of the university evolves alongside changes in global capitalism in responses to political struggles waged by students

• The relationship between the epistemic + the economic

  • Rules and norms governing what counts as valid scholarly

• How universities have been and continue to be key sites of struggles of liberation

• How universities claim to help Black women, but really hurt them

• How can the university actively support Black women rather than just materially support Black women?

Audre Lorde