Special Topics: Black Radicalism: Theory, Text, Performance.

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This seminar will examine important critical interventions in the field of Black Radicalism. We will look at theoretical texts, iconic studies, and creative work (novels, film, music, and performance) that foreground Black culture and Black thought as transformative resources that think about and chip away at regimes of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capital accumulation. Students will be required to write a short midterm as well as final paper. Authors we will examine might include work by Fred Moten, Amiri Baraka, Hortense Spillers, Angela Y Davis, Wesley Brown, Arthur Jafa, Arna Bontemps, Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel R Delany, George Jackson and Daphne Brooks.