Module: 1
Sponsoring Program: Graduate Division
Administrator: D'Anne Duncan

STUDY LIST INFORMATION
Course Number: GRAD 219
Course Name: Special Topics in Research on Racism in Science: Exposure, Antiblackness, Environment, and the Body
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: D'Anne Duncan

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Other faculty:Sheyda Aboii (student instructor)
Dates: April 3 - 21
Campus: Virtual
Zoom link TBD (Details for zoom will be sent to registered students by director/administrator)
Schedule: M/W/F 9:00 - 10:30 am PT
Minimum Class Size: 4
Maximum Class Size: 12

“Exposure, Antiblackness, Environment, and the Body” is a virtual mini-course exploring this multi-faceted nature of persistent yet proliferating environmental exposures on people’s health and lived experiences. We will trace the thematization of exposure broadly, engaging works of film, music, poetry, social theory, and speculative fiction to stretch beyond the effects of synthetic molecules on bodies and ingrained frameworks of knowing harm. We will sample from environmental justice literatures, environmental sociology, B/black studies, B/black feminisms, humanism studies, feminist science and technology studies, and medical anthropology. We will consider how these cross-disciplinary analyses of exposure highlight the inherent tension between efforts to render the exposure apparent and efforts to think beyond the harms of ongoing exposure within the protracted setting of late industrialism.