AFRC6550 - Black Political Thought: Difference And Community

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Black Political Thought: Difference And Community
Term
2023A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
402
Section ID
AFRC6550402
Course number integer
6550
Meeting times
T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
VANP 305
Level
graduate
Instructors
Michael G Hanchard
Description
This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with some of the key texts and debates in Africana Studies concerning the relationship between racial slavery, modernity and politics. Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, much of black political thought (thinking and doing politics) has advocated group solidarity and cohesion in the face of often overwhelming conditions of servitude, enslavement and coercion within the political economy of slavery and the moral economy of white supremacy. Ideas and practices of freedom however, articulated by political actors and intellectuals alike, have been as varied as the routes to freedom itself. Thus, ideas and practices of liberty, citizenship and political community within many African and Afro-descendant communities have revealed multiple, often competing forms of political imagination. The multiple and varied forms of political imagination, represented in the writings of thinkers like Eric Williams, Richard Wright, Carole Boyce Davies and others, complicates any understanding of black political thought as having a single origin, genealogy or objective. Students will engage these and other authors in an effort to track black political thought's consonance and dissonance with Western feminisms, Marxism, nationalism and related phenomena and ideologies of the 20th and now 21st century.
Course number only
6550
Cross listings
GSWS6550402, LALS6550402
Use local description
No