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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | ANTHH319A001 |
Course Title | Deviant Bodies: The Anthropology of Gender and Race |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Gender and Sexuality Studies |
Instructor | Eisenberg-Guyot,Nadja |
Times and Days | T 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | LNKL205 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2748 What is the relationship between white supremacy, racial capitalism, and the construction of gender difference, gender deviance, and racial hierarchy? How can we think about gender non-normativity as a challenge to racial capitalism and its regimes of value, while simultaneously recognizing the dangers of recuperating white gender nonconformity into the ruling racial regime? In this course, students will encounter scholars from a range of disciplines—anthropology, Black studies, history, performance studies, and comparative literature—exposing the colonial invention and imposition of race/sex difference as a foundational move of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, and capitalism. In the second half of the course, taking cues from Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black, Williamson’s Scandalize My Name, and McMillan’s Embodied Avatars, we will consider the (trans) liberation politics that coalesce through antinormative gendered positions refuting racial capitalism’s regimes of value.; Prerequisite(s): 100 level course in Anthropology or Instructor consent; Enrollment Limit: 15; Lottery Preference(s): Anthropology majors, Gender and Sexuality Studies minors Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: SO, B) |
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