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

Topic

De-Colonial and Third World Marxism

Instructors

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

Meeting Info

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

Overview of class

The seminar aims to de-provincialize Marxist Theory. It focuses on how thinkers and revolutionaries across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Middle East interpreted and transformed historical materialism to address imperialism, slavery, underdevelopment, coloniality, patriarchy, and racial capitalism. Students will likely engage the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on primitive accumulation and colonialism; Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg on imperialism; W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Clovis Moura, Beatriz Nascimiento, and Cedric Robinson on the Black radical tradition; Silvia Federici, Gayatri Spivak, Selma James, and Raya Dunayevskaya on Marxist feminism; Claudia Jones, Sylvia Wynter, Louise Thompson Patterson, and Lélia Gonzales on Black feminist Marxism; Mao Tse Tung, Amilcar Cabral, Huey Newton, and Glen Coulthard on revolutionary praxis and contradiction; Walter Rodney, Ruy Mauro Marini, and Samir Amin on underdevelopment; and Frantz Fanon, Anibal Quijano, and Denise Ferreira da Silva on psycho-affect and de-colonization.