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May 10, 2025
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GWS173 PO - Premodern Intersectionality: The Origins of RaceWhen Offered: Irregularly.
Instructor(s): A. Osgood
Credit: 1
How have gender, race, sexuality, social status, and other factors shaped each other historically? From late Roman descriptions of the cap of Attila the Hun in the 400s to the Haitian Revolution in the 1800s, we will attend to how writers and artists deployed tropes surrounding gendered and sexual conduct to generate idioms of racial and ethnic difference. Our exploration will take us across the globe to survey how Europeans understood their place as they encountered people who differed from them. In the process, we will consider what intersectionality might bring to the study of the past. Was race a modern invention, as many scholars claim, or does it have a deeper, more contested, more complex and more intersectional history?
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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