This course examines how violence is enacted in Canada, at various scales, and across domestic, urban, national, and international landscapes. We will interrogate what is meant by violence; examine its colonial, racial and patriarchal dimensions; explore the impact on people and communities; and attend to forms of resistance and repair. This course examines the constitution of Blackness in Canada, as it intersects with other social relations of identity and power such as gender, class and sexuality. Black intellectual traditions and cultural expressions in literature, music, media, education, social justice movements, and the workplace are also addressed as noteworthy spaces which shape, influence and represent the Black Experience in Canada.
This course examines how violence is enacted in Canada, at various scales, and across domestic, urban, national, and international landscapes. We will interrogate what is meant by violence; examine its colonial, racial and patriarchal dimensions; explore the impact on people and communities; and attend to forms of resistance and repair. This course examines the constitution of Blackness in Canada, as it intersects with other social relations of identity and power such as gender, class and sexuality. Black intellectual traditions and cultural expressions in literature, music, media, education, social justice movements, and the workplace are also addressed as noteworthy spaces which shape, influence and represent the Black Experience in Canada.
