Democracy in Black and Indigenous Voices

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This course brings together Black Studies and Native Studies in an exploration of what scholar Tiffany Lethabo King terms the “Black Shoals”: a new way of seeing relation and imagining new kinds of futures. In contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and memoir, Black and Indigenous writers act as agents for change, engaging with the history and institutions of the U.S. that are based in the violence of settler colonialism and enslavement. These authors argue for not only full citizenship but also a radical shift in the institutions of this country in order to transform the U.S. into real democracy.