Learning Units

An Introduction to Key Concepts in the Study of Racial Violence including Race, Racial Violence, Racial Terror, Whiteness, White Supremacy.

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How has anti-Indigenous violence shaped the settler colonial state? How do we understand the violence of the colonial present? How is colonial/racial violence legally authorized?

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How are Indigenous women’s bodies the raw material for the making of states? What is the relationship between globalization and racial violence? How is sexualized violence central to colonial and neo-colonial regimes?

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The imprinting of power on the bodies of Black people is historically specific. How do we trace this process from slavery to the present? How do lynching and sexual violence function as racial violence?

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How is the escalating violence direct at women a racial violence, that is, violence directed at women because they are Black? What analytics are available to us from Black women’s resistance?

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How has anti-Mexican violence and, more broadly, anti-Latinx violence shaped the landscape and national imaginary of the United States? How do immigration detention centers contribute to the carceral regime of the U.S.? How is state violence linked intimately to gendered violence?

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How is racial violence enacted against migrants and refugees globally?

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How is anti-trans and anti-queer violence linked to gender-based violence and racial violence? What role does anti-queer and anti-trans violence play in the creation and maintenance of the settler state?

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How is state violence linked to racial violence?

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How to we resist violence? How do we imagine and create community alternatives to carcerality? How do we practice a commitment to abolition?

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