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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | ENGLB372001 |
| Course Title | Black Ecofeminism(s) |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Environmental Studies |
| Instructor | Alston,Alex |
| Times and Days | TTh 10:10am-11:30am
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2441 How have Black feminist authors and traditions theorized or represented the ecological world and their relationship to it? How does thinking intersectionally about gender(ing) and racialization expand or challenge conventional notions of nature, conservation, or environmental justice? In what ways does centering racial blackness critically reframe a host of practical and philosophical questions historically brought together under the sign ecofeminism? Combining history and theory, the humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary course will use the work of Black feminist writers (broadly defined) across a range of genres to approach and to trouble the major paradigms and problems of contemporary Euro-American ecofeminist thought. The course uses fiction and poetry by Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen as a gateway to a range of critical work by Jennifer Morgan, Sylvia Wynter, Maria Mies, and Val Plumwood as it attempts to define and deconstruct what Chelsea Frazier calls Black Feminist Ecological Thought. Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 15; f the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: ENGL majors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores), then Africana Studies minors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores) |
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