Graduate Topics in African American Studies (480-0-22)

Topic

Black Thought: Mbembe, Moten, da Silva, Wynter

Instructors

Thomas F. DeFrantz

Meeting Info

University Library 3670: Tues 10:00AM - 12:50PM

Overview of class

Beginning with texts by Glissant and DuBois, this course demands close reading of work from four foundational thinkers of 21st-century Black life based on the African Continent, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the US. Alignments and distensions of concepts revealed by these researchers predict capacities to extend arguments of how Black Life coheres through methods of Black Thought.