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Instructor: Dalitso Ruwe

Intersectionality has proven to be a powerful legal theory that has advanced that legal remedies focused on racial discrimination have focused on ameliorating the conditions of Black males while legal remedies focused on sex discrimination have focused on white women, as such Black women given their race and gender are disadvantaged by race and sex legal remedies that do not account for their intersecting identity. Following post-intersectionality critiques that have challenged intersectional readings of Black male as being advantaged in legal remedies, this class will explore the fact that despite the mountainous empirical studies showing that Black males are the most incarcerated, the most unemployed, the least educated, and have the highest rate of homicide in the United States, there is little theory that speaks to the forces that oppress Black males beyond generic theories of racism. In this course, the Black male will be understood as a victim of the genocidal logics of patriarchy rather than its inheritor.