AFRCNA 2750 - AFRICANA STUDIES PROSEMINAR 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar is designed to familiarize graduate students with some of the key texts and debates in Africana Studies concerning the relationship between racial slavery, colonialism, and freedom movements in Africa and the African diaspora. Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, much of black freedom movements have advocated for group solidarity and cohesion in the face of often overwhelming conditions of servitude, enslavement and coercion within the political economy of slavery and the moral economy of white supremacy. Ideas and practices of freedom, however, articulated by political actors and intellectuals alike, have been as varied as the routes to freedom itself. As expressed by C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Dubois, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and others' ideas and practices of liberty, equality, and citizenship within many African and Afro-descendant communities have revealed multiple, often competing forms of socio-political imagination. Students will engage these and other authors in an effort to understand and craft a genealogy of Africana thoughts and practices.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade

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