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49627
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Lecture-Discussion
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GR
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2:00PM
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Literatures, Cultures, & Ling
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Cha-Jua, S
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- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/26/24-12/11/24
- Credit:
- 4 hours
- Section Title:
- Blk nationalism radical Blknss
- Section Info:
- AFRO 597 "Black nationalism" and "radical Blackness" - This course surveys the diverse yet thematically connected set of social philosophies generally classified under the broad rubrics of “Black nationalism” and “radical Blackness.” We will take a Black/Africana Studies approach to these topics. That is, we will explore the readings and audiovisual material through an analytical framework that is necessarily Afrocentric in that we start from the condition of, and perspectives extracted from the modal or most frequently occurring African American sociohistorical experience and move outward to an investigation of the role class and gender play solely and in interaction with each other and the experiences of other Afro-descendant peoples. We examine canonical primary documents in these traditions, focusing primarily on Black nationalism and radical Blackness as social theories, political philosophies, and paradigms or intellectual traditions. Though attention will be given to Black nationalist and radical Black organizations and social movements, the main focus will be on Black nationalist and radical Black ideas. We will critically examine the ideas of a several key theorists and iconic spokespersons and explore the core themes of each tradition. Topics to be investigated include the varieties of Black nationalism: protonationalism, the philosophies and practices of autonomous culture, control of social institutions, political apparatuses, communities and towns and cities; and territorial nationalism, the ideas and actions aimed at acquiring control of a state or states with the U.S. empire or an independent nation-state; and the diversities of radical Black thought, revolutionary Black nationalism, socialism, Black anarchism, and various Marxist approaches to Black liberation. We will interrogate the life, ideas and actions of seminal scholar activists in the Black nationalist/Pan-Africanist traditions such the David Walker, Rev. Lewis Woodson, Bishop James Theodore Holly, Dr. Martin Robinson Delaney, Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, Queen Mother Moore, Malcolm X, Stokely, Carmichael, Maulana Karenga and Amiri Baraka. In the radical Blackness tradition will engage with the thought and deeds of individuals such as Peter H. Clark, Lucy Parsons, the Rev. George Washington Woodbey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Paul Robeson, Huey P. Newton, and Angela Davis. We will also explore the articulations and actions of major Pan-Africanists such as Kwame Nkrumah, Frantz Fanon, Julius Nyerere, Walter Rodney, Amilcar Cabral, and Steven Biko. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, AFRO 500 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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46593
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Lecture-Discussion
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R
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9:00AM
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R
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Location Pending
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Hunt, I
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- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/26/24-12/11/24
- Section Title:
- Seminar Afro-American Lit
- Section Info:
- FA24 AFRO 597 - Seminar in Afro-American Literature - Irvin Hunt - The Question of Tomorrow: Black Women Poets on Radical Black Futures - In the collection Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING (2018), Erica Hunt explains why she and Dawn Lundy Martin brought this fleet of living writers together: “One dimension that drew our curiosity was to know how this particular group… would respond to the question of tomorrow.” Hunt and Martin were curious about how Black women writers are imagining “alternate ways of living out and through strictures of time.” Extending the temporal turn in Black literary scholarship, this seminar explores the nature and conditions of these contemporary “strictures”--the afterlives of modernity–and the alternative temporalities Black women poets have crafted. We will explore what makes the socialities, locations, and poetics of their timescapes revolutionary: what forms of community and care comprise them? What is the language that makes them possible? How have feminist approaches to Blackness, being, and embodiment produced shapes of time that build and protect interior, intimate, and private worlds? Our exploration, however, will not be entirely optimistic. Following Hunt and Martin, we will work to bear in mind that “living out and through” a “stricture” always entails the possibility of extending it, that “the question of tomorrow” is also a statement that tomorrow is in question. The Black poets gathered here will help us understand this ambiguity. We will examine how they have mixed a variety of media (visual art, sound, film, etc.) to imagine both apocalyptic and promising futures, and to push the limits of language. Probing a remarkable range of original concepts and aesthetic innovations that stretch and sometimes redefine the category of the future, we ultimately will theorize the capacity of gendered Blackness to create a new world. The seminar will take shape around risky conversations between critics and poets. Classical theories of gender, Blackness, and modernity by the Combahee River Collective, Hortense Spillers, and Sylvia Wynter will provide our grounding as we engage recent and new work in literary and cultural studies by Denise da Silva, Saidiya Hartman, Soyica Colbert, Kevin Quashie, Candice Jenkins, Margo Crawford, M. Jacqui Alexander, Sefanie Dunning, Katherine McKittrick, Kara Keeling, and Tina Campt. Alongside these scholarly studies, we will read collections of poetry by Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, Bettina Judd, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Evie Shockley, Aracelis Girmay, Tracy K. Smith, and Erica Hunt. Requirements will be two class presentations, three book reviews, and a conference-length paper (8-10 pages) that culminates in either a scholarly or a creative work. Meets w/ENGL 559
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
Restricted to students with Graduate class standing.
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