ASIA AM 155Indigenous and Third World Feminist Thought and Praxis
Asian American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of social constructions and intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in relation to ideologies and systems of power and oppression. Provides theoretical and historical foundation for understanding Black, Indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian-American, and Arab/Muslim Feminist thought, practice, and issues, transnational configurations of race, gender, class, sexuality, and empire. Engagement with pedagogical tools to explore Indigenous, Women of Color, and Third World Feminist thought and praxis throughout history and in the present. Study of racialized and classed gender and sexual violence, and processes for collective healing, transformative, and restorative justice.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.