ENGL 6715 - The Idea of Black Culture

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

H. Spillers.

This course examines the major theoretical and conceptual currents of Black thought as it unfolds in the political and historical context of the post-slavery, post-colonial world; we will read texts by C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, Nahum Chandler, Fred Moten, R.A. Judy, and other contemporary thinkers on the question of black culture and the African Diaspora.