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Graduate Topics in African American Studies (480-0-20)

Topic

Theorizing Blackness and Diaspora

Instructors

John David Marquez
847 491 5122
1860 Campus Dr Crowe 5-135

Meeting Info

TBA: Mon 4:00PM - 6:50PM

Overview of class

This course aims to enhance understanding of how Blackness and Black diaspora have been theorized by scholars in Black Studies. This course is also a part of the Core Curriculum in the Ph.D. Program of Study in the Black Studies Department at NU. Accordingly, the seminar's themes and assigned readings correspond with a core reading list designed by the Black Studies Department's faculty for Ph.D. students. Most of the readings assigned for this course are texts that (by all accounts) many of our current Black Studies Ph.D. Students have yet to fully engage in their coursework. For students in other graduate programs, this seminar will provide an extensive training in the ways that Blackness, Black politics, and Black culture have been theorized and specifically in the Americas.