POLI 286 - Theory in the Flesh: Indigenous Women and Women of Color Feminist Political Thought

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as WFQS 286) Cherríe L. Moraga writes “a theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives — our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings — all fuse to create a politic born of necessity.” This class follows Moraga in noting that political theory emerges from the intersectional experiences of embodied contradiction, and from the political and polemical realities of the everyday collective social condition. To analyze the grounded quality of the feminist political thought of Indigenous women and Women of Color, we read the writings of Nellie Wong, Mitsuye Yamada, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Aurora Levins Morales, Chrystos, Haunani-Kay Trask, Lee Maracle, Cutcha Rislibg Baldy, Toni Cade Bambara, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and Kate Rushin, who all provide us with a political theory in the flesh. Raquel Madrigal.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS