GNDR 300L - Black Women, White Campuses

Institution:

Westminster College (Salt Lake City)

Subject:

Gender Studies

Description:

The existing research on Black female students on predominately White college campuses often results in quantitative data that suggests that Black women are more successful at completing degrees than their male counterparts. This suggestion often leads to a dominant narrative of success that fails to recognize the challenges Black female students face as well as the sacrifices they make in order to graduate. This course examines the complex experience of being a Black female student at a predominantly White campus both academically and personally. It addresses such topics as identity, education, Black feminism, Black/White sisterhood, social mobility, activism from a socio-historical perspective, and what is recycling of institutional discourses of erasure? Black Feminist Epistemology (Collins, 2000) and Critical Race Feminism (Wing, 2003) with a specific focus on intersectionality will be utilized to guide debates and discussions about how race and gender dynamics shape Black female students' experiences pursuing a degree on a predominantly White college campus. This course will investigate a set of perplexed questions: What are the challenges that Black female students face in their pursuit of degrees at predominately White colleges and universities? What kinds of mentorship do Black female students seek and find helpful and/or unhelpful as they navigate challenges? How do race and gender dynamics shape these challenges? How do race and gender dynamics shape the mentorship Black female students seek, find and find helpful? Ultimately this course will examine in-depth how race and gender dynamics shape the challenges Black female students on predominately White college campuses face in their pursuit of degrees as well as how mentorship impacts their navigation through these challenges.

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2.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.westminstercollege.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 484-7651

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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