HMS-653P Gender, Media, and Racial Capitalism

3 Credits

This interdisciplinary media theory course explores the co-articulation of media platforms, gender and gender theory, race and critical race theory, and film and media theory, and their situatedness in global capitalism, or what this course will conceive of as racial capitalism. Students will come to terms with the theoretical frameworks for colonialism, imperialism, globalization, and financialization, while also exploring modes of domination and oppression along social differentiations including gender, nation, race, and class.