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Apr 25, 2024
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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 295-03 - Special Topic: Citizen Maxine Waters: Selling the Shadow and the Vulnerabilities of Black Women1 credits (Spring)
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has emerged as the embodiment of popular resistance to Trump’s policies and persona. More than a meme, Waters represents much of what the popular media likes to believe about Black women: that they are impenetrable, outspoken, and fearless. The truth is, Black women’s emotional realities are much more complex. This class mines Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric to identify the literary and cultural practices Black women employ to combat invisibility, hypervisibility, and misrecognition.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or GWS 111 .
Instructor: Benjamin
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