ANTH 334: BLACK FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES
Fall 2026 · Section 001 · CRN 16394
This course engages Black feminist theory as a foundation for science and technology studies (STS). STS is a field that focuses on how power is infused in how we create scientific knowledge, how we disseminate “objective” information, and how it materializes in the technology we build into our everyday lives. However, how might we better understand “science” through an intersectional framework that attends to race, gender, sexuality, and disability simultaneously? Drawing on critical methods of speculation, the course will address the following themes: the role of racism in social reproduction through the body from colonialism and slavery to contemporary genomics; humanism; the racialization of physical matter and space; and concluding with Afrofuturism. In addition to mobilizing the theories and concepts developed to bear witness to the particularity of Black womxns lived experience, this class has us consider what Black feminism can teach us about how to reckon with building a more with just and equitable world with science and technology against various oppressive forces. Cross-list: ANTH 534. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 334 if student has credit for ANTH 419/ANTH 534.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Victoria Massie