BLKS 101: Critical Theories of Gender, Race, and Blackness

← 2024-25 2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; activity, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour

Catalog page 179

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor

Description: Examines critical theories on the intersections of gender, race, and Blackness. Explores analytical and political implications of such theories and interrogates relations to traditional disciplinary canons and existing forms of political organizing. Probes continuities and ruptures between our planetary contemporary political moment and the cognitive apparatus that transatlantic slavery realized.

Derived Information — The following is not part of the official catalog but is computed from catalog data.
Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26 8/25  8/25
2024-25 10/25 10/25