Whites, White Jews and Us: Radical Black, Arab & Jewish Thinkers

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Inspired by Houria Bouteldja’s book White, Jews and Us, which we will read in class, we will read authors who are engaged with generations of (forced) displacement and concomitant fraught cartographies. The class will proceed along lines drawn by two questions: (a) what makes these texts radical and how does their radicalness opens paths of refusal, care and repair of and in shared worlds; (b) how do these authors engage with identities made and remade by displacement and catastrophe, and how imagination, fabulation, remembrance and reclamation of never-completely-lost worlds are mobilized to question these identities, borders and injustices they produce. We will read texts by Ella Shohat, Houria Bouteldja, Saidiya Hartman, Susan Slymovics, Anarkata, Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Lital Levy and others.