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

Topic

Black Lives, Black Research

Instructors

kihana miraya ross

Meeting Info

Crowe 5-138 Af Am Studies Sem: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Building on students' grounding in Black Studies methodologies, this course invites deeper engagement with the theories, practices, and ethics that shape Black research. Black Lives, Black Research centers students' own projects, using them as a site through which to consider how Black studies scholars define their objects of study, select their methods, and situate their work within ongoing Black intellectual and political traditions. Together, we will ask what it means to conduct research that is accountable to Black life—its complexities, communities, and world-making capacities—and how our scholarly approaches both draw from and contribute to the broader field of Black studies.