Jun 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

BLS 389 - Black Feminist Hauntology: mapping carceral time-life-death-afterlife in the era of criminal justice

Credits 3
Requirements: Prereq: Upper-division standing
Assesses the racializing and heteropatriarchal pathways upon which contemporary colonizing societies manifest and enforce criminal legal systems of power. Students will read Black Feminist writings that articulate and locate how time, life, death and the afterlife have been colonized by historic carceral institutions of power, primarily chattel slavery and European colonialism as they extend within criminal, legal and carceral institutions.
Graded