This seminar is designed to explore the origins and transformations on a global scale (beyond the U.S.) and across time (even before our modern era)of the concepts of race and blackness and their entanglements with gender and sexuality. More specifically, the course is designed to expose students to classical and foundational Africana Studies thinkers who offer us key historical, empirical, and theoretical frameworks to understand race and sexuality in relation to other systems of domination and resistance. In particular, this seminar focuses on the works of Black Marxist historian Cedric J. Robinson and decolonial feminist scholar Sylvia Wynter. Additionally, we also discuss the production of organic and academic intellectuals who draw from these thinkers.
- Teacher: Mamyrah Douge-Prosper