Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I have been teaching courses that emphasis and encourage black feminist activism inside and outside of the academy. This year, two of my upper level classes naturally developed and co-designed mid-term assessments that applied course concepts in public facing formats. i am excited about the opportunity to further develop an applied learning pedagogy that enables students to move past the helplessness we are programmed to feel. im so glad this program exists and social action curriculum is something my students and my campus NEEDS!
Course Description:
In this course students will bring the works of Black feminist scholars, political-prisoners, writers, and artists into their critical imaginations to produce research questions that deepen our collective comprehension and fuel our understandings of black womanhood and US foreign policy.
This course will ask: How have Black women historically and in our contemporary moment represented and resisted US-interests on the global stage? How do state formations make use of Black femininity?
Taught By:
Ra Malika Imhotep
Assistant Professor of Global Black Studies
International Studies
Spelman College
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