Culture and Revolution

Catalog description

This undergraduate seminar focuses on foundational and new theories of culture and art in comparative revolutionary contexts from the 19th century to the present. The course focuses on explorations of culture as the site of revolutionary praxis as articulated by various revolutionists from Russia/USSR, China, Vietnam, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Latin American southern cone; US insurgencies (Black Panthers, Chicana/o/x Movement, Native American, Puerto Rican domestic and independentista movements, revolutionary pan-Asian revolutions, and white and multi-racial revolutionary trajectories); in addition to select additional contexts.