Black Women and Worldmaking

The experiences and processes of colonization and empire have been central to the formation and transformation of black lives and worlds in the modern period. This course grapples with the question: how have black women imagined and struggled for alternative worlds not bound by empire and its classed, gendered and racialized strictures? Focusing on black women as worldmakers this course shifts the focus on black imaginaries of freedom away from the masculinist purviews that have predominated to not only center black women but to also ask questions about how this transforms how we understand the very project of black freedom and worldmaking.