2022-2023 Academic Catalog

May 10, 2024

2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 246 - Black Feminism as Praxis: From the Ancestral to the Astral

This course traces lineages of Black feminist praxis across time and space using a psychopolitical framework. We begin by grounding Black feminist praxis in a social, political, and economic analysis of global workings of power and oppression linked to race, gender, and class. We then explore how a Black feminist analytic shapes how we imagine, practice, and build alternative ways of thinking, being, and doing to disrupt and dismantle oppression. In this exploration, students are invited to grapple with hetero- and cis-normative assumptions of what it means to be a Black woman and/or a Black feminist. Finally, this course asks students to critically reflect on how an embodiment of a Black feminist praxis shifts and expands our psychological understanding of love, identity, liberation, and (r)evolution as human beings, and to speculate about whether the realization of Black feminism as praxis opens up possibilities for moving beyond the physical realm to time travel across astral planes.

Prerequisites: PSYC 101 or Permission

Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually