AAAS 505S
Black Women and Worldmaking
Khwezi Mkhize
Description from DukeHub
The experiences and processes of colonization and empire have been central to the formation and transformation of black lives and worlds in the modern period. This course grapples with the question: how have black women imagined and struggled for alternative worlds not bound by empire and its classed, gendered and racialized strictures? Focusing on black women as worldmakers this course shifts the focus on black imaginaries of freedom away from the masculinist purviews that have predominated to not only center black women but to also ask questions about how this transforms how we understand the very project of black freedom and worldmaking.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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