HIST 581 - Intersectional Histories: (subtitle)

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0

This course is designed to introduce students to the interpretive framework of intersectionality. Since the rise of the field of social history in the 1960s, historians have often applied intersectional lenses (typically race, class, and gender) to the study of the past. But the study of these intersecting identities has not always been applied consistently and other identities (such as sexuality and disability) have received less attention. The course may be theoretical or focused on a subtheme, but it will explore how scholars have approached intersectional histories. In addition to interrogating scholarly works, this course will examine the identities of historians and the ways that their positionality shapes interest in certain topics and subsequent interpretations. These theoretical and historiographical discussions will set the stage for you to pursue an original research project that addresses intersectionality. The assigned secondary source literature as well as your research into other secondary sources and relevant primary sources on your selected topics will result in a significant final project that includes a discussion of relevant literature on the topic.

Not on a Regular Basis

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