Spring 2025
21W.S60 – Black Faith: Spirituality and Liberatory Writing for the Oppressed
Instructor: Brianna Williams
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30pm-4pm
Room: 56-176
The class will lean on Black Liturgy, viewing Afro-American spirituality as an exemplary force behind liberation movements in the United States and the Caribbean, but Black as a color and as a concept encompasses every shade. This seminar and workshop will be a forum for people of all backgrounds of oppression (religious, racial, class, disability, sexual, gender, etc.). We will use writing as a vehicle to reside and persist amidst oppression and from within “impure” bodies, tainted by the ramifications of oppression. We will read and write experimental and unconventional forms of literature, looking to them as modalities of faith that can operate and thrive within a system in which we have lost faith.