WGSS 302 - Chicana/Latina Feminist Voices in the U.S.

• Define key concepts in relation to the study of Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusivity including antiracism, racism, race, ethnicity, discrimination, privilege, diversity, equity, inclusivity, and intersectionality.
• Outline the evolution of Chicana Feminism along with the struggles and movidas to gain validation within the public intellectuals.
• Analyze the role of race, racism, and antiracism in the United States.
• Describe how race and racism play a major role in the creation of Chicana Feminist production and their historical activism against anti-racist ideologies and epistemologies that shape Chicana’s identity and their Chicana cultural production today.
• Describe intersections between race and ethnicity and other minoritized identities.
• Examine and value the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, among other considerations in the lives of Chicana/Latinas.
• Explain systematic and structural mechanisms that perpetuate both privilege and inequities.
• Analyze the major theories that influence Chicana feminist thoughts.
• Compare and contrast their own core values, assumptions, and biases with those held by other individuals, cultures, or societies.
• Synthesize a discussion of contemporary Chicana feminist issues with an array of past and contemporary Chicana feminist literature, verbally and in writing regarding a social justice issue in the U.S.