Session 1
- Introductions: Hey! How are you? Who are you? Why are you here?
- Syllabus
- In-class discussion: “The Combahee River Collective Statement” (PDF)
Session 2
- In-class viewing: “From Park Bench to Lab Bench-What Kind of Future Are We Designing?: Ruha Benjamin-TedXBaltimore.” YouTube.
- Reading response to Bailey and Peoples article due (see Readings section)
Session 3
- Guest: Dr. Nicole Charles
- Extra credit opportunity: “Ethnography Workshop: Ethnographies of Race and Racial Domination,” Northwestern University
Session 4
- Form podcast assignment groups
- Pick a topic from a post on the Black Feminist Health Science Studies (BFHSS) Tumblr site and brainstorm
- Extra credit opportunity: “Black Health Matters Conference: Taking an Intersectional Approach to Systemic Racism,” Harvard University
Session 5
- Podcast work
Session 6
- In-class discussion: Williams, Patricia J. “Closing Reflections: The Endless Looping of Public Health and Scientific Racism.” (PDF) In Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. Public Health Law Watch, an initiative of the George Consortium, August 2020.
- Podcast outline due
Session 7
- Podcast script due
Session 8
- Play podcast rough cut episodes for each other
- Symposium prep
Session 9
Session 10
- Symposium debrief due
- In-class discussion: The Street
- Extra credit opportunity: “The Fight to be Heard, Seen and Understood: Uncovering Covid-19 Policies and Practices in Global Health,” Northeastern University
Session 11
- Guest: Demita Frazier
- In-class discussion: “The Combahee River Collective Statement” (PDF)
- In-class discussion: The Street
Session 12
- In-class discussion: The Street
Session 13
- In-class viewing: “The Story of Sarah Baartman by Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.” YouTube.
Session 14
- In-class discussion: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Session 15
- In-class viewing: “Social Justice: The Women of Cancer Alley” playlist. YouTube.
- In-class viewing: “Greening the Ghetto - Majora Carter.” 2006. Ted.
- In-class discussion: Pulido, Laura. “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27, no. 3 (2016): 1–16.
Session 16
- In-class viewing: Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility. Directed by Patricia Berne. Color, 32 mins. 2013.
- In-class discussion: Roberts, Dorothy. “The Dark Side of Birth Control.” Chapter 2 in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 9780679758693. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 17
- In-class discussion: Green, Kai M., and Marquis Bey. “Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no. 4 (2017): 438–54.
Session 18
- Last class and final discussion