ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes author's pedagogical approach, the courses' objectives, the topics covered in these courses, and finally, provides general reflections on how Africana Studies curriculum guided by Black feminist pedagogy can be used by Black female faculty as a way to inform and support the work of student activists. Police brutality is a form of systematic lynching that occurs as police, or modern day slave-catchers, unjustifiably and unprovoked take Black life due to fear for their own life. Collins' concept of the "new racism" helps to support author's pedagogical aim to get students to explore the intersectionality of oppression as they learn how to identify and discuss modern-day manifestations of racism and racial privilege. Instructors should not hesitate to interrogate how the Black community addresses intersecting identities and oppressions in relation to police brutality and racial violence, and as a Black woman scholar.
