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In this class, we will focus on a body of theories, approaches, and cultural artefacts that center Black scholars’ and artists’ renderings of being in the world. By focusing primarily on a variety of texts from the Black US American context, this seminar seeks to introduce its participants to the history of Black Studies in the US, a selection of its major thought-concepts, but also aims at extrapolating Blackness/race as a social category in connection with other analytical categories, such as nationality, gender, sexuality, and ability. In addition to that, a few sessions towards the end of the seminar will be reserved in order to look at Black Studies’ diasporic/transnational scope.
The texts for the seminar will mostly be provided through Moodle. Any other material and its availability will be communicated in the beginning of the seminar. Please be prepared to purchase and prepare 1-2 books of prose and/or poetry for discussion in this seminar. |
