One of the best professors at UCSB! She may be young but you can immediately tell that she is extremely intelligent and passionate about her work and the class. She is very helpful and uses a variety of materials to introduce topics. I learned more in this one class than most of the rest combined. Highly recommend. Very fair grading.

brilliant, such great insight.

Very insightful professor! I really enjoyed this class and her teaching style. I would love to have her again for sure.

Blake is a really cool person, you can tell that she is very bright through her charisma. She is also very sweet and understanding. However, as a teacher, she is boring and all over the place. Her lectures are extremely unorganized. I would say the class is difficult because it is so abstract. I would agree- it really is more like black studies.

I was not looking forward to this class until i showed up. The class was full of insight and she allowed students to give input and express opinions. She was very helpful and clear with her lectures. Midterm and Final were take home essays, 2 essays 3 pages each. GREAT CLASS! interesting and passionate

Most annoying class ever. Lectures are so boring and disorganized, she writes on a projector slide as she goes and then you try to study but the only notes you have are a random list of phrases. Also class seems more like black studies and not womens culture