Racial Violence and Law

Through feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist framework, exploration of racial violence and appropriate anti-violence strategies. Offers theoretical approach for understanding racial violence. Consideration of what is racial violence and racial terror; how feminists should respond to racial violence; connection between historical moments of extraordinary racial violence and our everyday world; how we understand violence at specific sites, e.g., carceral sites, schools, streets, borders, and in different historical contexts; how individuals come to participate in, remain indifferent to, or approve of violence; role of hegemonic masculinity and femininity in these processes; and how violence is sexualized. Exploration of these broad questions through consideration of anti-indigenous/colonial violence, anti-Black and anti-Mexican violence, racial violence underpinning anti-migrant and anti-refugee movements, torture, terror, and state violence.

P/NP or letter grading.