Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Existence in Black
Term
2024A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC5060401
Course number integer
5060
Meeting times
T 12:00 PM-2:59 PM
Meeting location
CHEM 119
Level
graduate
Instructors
David K. Amponsah
Description
Racial, colonial, and other political formations have encumbered Black existence since at least the fifteenth-century. Black experiences of and reflections on these matters have been the subject of existential writings and artistic expressions ranging from the blues to reggae, fiction and non-fiction. Reading some of these texts alongside canonical texts in European existential philosophy, this class will examine how issues of freedom, self, alienation, finitude, absurdity, race, and gender shape and are shaped by the global Black experience. Since Black aliveness is literally critical to Black existential philosophy, we shall also engage questions of Black flourishing amidst the potential for pessimism and nihilism.
Course number only
5060
Cross listings
AFRC4406401, HIST0873401, PHIL4515401, PHIL6515401
Use local description
No