WMST 450: Current Topics in Women and Gender Studies

WMST 450-002: Policing Black Bodies
(Spring 2018)

03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR

Krug Hall 242

Section Information for Spring 2018

Policing Black Bodies interrogates the myriad ways in which Black Bodies are policed both literally and symbolically. Harnessing the theoretical lenses of intersectionality and color blind racism, this course provides students with a framework for connecting every kind of policing from the incarceration of more than a million black bodies on any given day in the United States to the exploitation of these Black bodies through prison industries, to the role that riots play as a form of organized protest, to the school to prison pipeline and the policing of both women’s bodies and trans bodies.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1-3

Studies selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Includes topics such as women and violence, women and international development, women's myth and ritual, LGBTQ topics, the history and politics of sexuality, disability, transnational issues and religion. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 18 credits.
Specialized Designation: Mason Impact., Topic Varies
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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