RESOURCES
READING SCHEDULE
DATE 📅
TOPIC 💡
READING(S) 📄
WEEK 1
Tuesday 9/8
Thursday 9/10
Introduction
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND THE HUMAN
None
Sylvia Wynter, “No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues,” Forum N.H.I.: Knowledge for the 21st Century, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Fall 1994): 42-71
WEEK 2
Tuesday 9/15
Thursday 9/17
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND THE HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND THE HUMAN
Grace Kyungwon Hong, “‘The Future of Our Worlds’: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University Under Globalization,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8.2 (2008): 95-115
Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill, “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy,” Feminist Formations 25.1 (Spring 2013): 8-34
WEEK 3
Tuesday 9/22
Thursday 9/24
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND THE HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND THE HUMAN
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse,” from Feminism Without Borders (2003), p. 17-42.
Mimi Thi Nguyen, “The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminisms in an Age of Terror,” Signs 36.2 (Winter 2011): 359-358.
WEEK 4
Tuesday 9/29
Thursday 10/1
Peer Review Day / Review
FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM
None
Karl Marx, “Wage Labor and Capital (1849)” and “The Secret of So-Called Primitive Accumulation (1867),” from The Marx-Engels Reader 2nd edition (1978), p. 203-217 & 431-438
WEEK 5
Tuesday 10/6 *
Thursday 10/8
FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM
FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM
Jodi Melamed, “Racial Capitalism,” Critical Ethnic Studies 1.1 (Spring 2015): 76-85, Saidiya Hartman, “The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors,” Souls 18.1 (2016): 166-173
Melissa Wright, “Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Disposability” from Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism (2006), p. 71-89.