This course delves into the rich intellectual tradition of Black feminisms and explores their critical insights into the fear of the Black body. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, students will analyze the ways Black feminists have challenged, deconstructed, and reconstructed notions surrounding systemic anti-Blackness, ultimately providing tools for understanding and addressing this pervasive fear.

Students will use Wikipedia to build a profile of one key, historical, or contemporary Black feminist leader whose work is critical for us to understand issues affecting Black people in the USA and who has been able to help address the pervasive fear of the Black body in the USA (this could be an academic, activist, political leader, community leader, etc.)