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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. |
