ASRC 6510 - [Pan-Africanism and Feminism]

(crosslisted) COML 6460, FGSS 6510

Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

C. Boyce Davies.

This course examines the particular theoretical intersections of Pan-Africanism and feminism through a study of works that address the lives of activist women and men who lived political lives that demanded an articulation of this intersection. It will examine representative texts in each of these broad fields, paying particular attention to those works that explicitly address the intersection. Students will select and study the work of one thinker in either category and examine the written life from a few angles. In particular, we will address the conflicts, disjunctures, and slippages between these positions; the possibilities and limitations as expressed by these thinkers; and the issues of collaboration, erasure articulated. Students will also have the opportunity to identify and discuss popular culture that addresses these themes.