ClassInfo - Fall 2014 African Amer & African Studies Classes

Fall 2014 | AFRO 3120 Section 001: Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (26191)

Instructor(s): Yuichiro Onishi
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:: AFRO 5120 Section 001
HIST 3456 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014

Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 155

Course Catalog Description:: Political, cultural, historical linkages between Africans, African-Americans, African-Caribbean. Black socio-political movements/radical intellectual trends in late 19th/20th centuries. Colonialism/racism. Protest organizations, radical movements in United States/Europe.
Class Description:: Throughout modern history, the critical perspectives of Black intellectuals, writers, poets, artists, and musicians exercised tremendous shaping and explanatory power. In dynamic and flexible ways, their ideas about freedom have moved across time and space to shape the movement of world history. This course will take up the challenge of investigating the vitality and quality of their visions of liberation, especially how Afrodiasporic thinkers and activists have come to develop theory and practice against the interlocking systems of domination. Their critiques of the fundamental problems of the modern world (white supremacy, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy) have at once exceeded the available political idioms and languages and boundaries of nation-states and energized collective action at the grassroots. The analysis of this recursive movement between the local and the global is foundational to this course. In this course, we will refer to the Afrodiasporic mode of producing critical reason as Black internationalism to unpack the dynamism of social and intellectual movements in the African diaspora and unlikely places, such as India, Japan, and China. An emphasis will be placed on how Black intellectual-activists have responded to such world historic developments as European colonialism in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, two World Wars, the Cold War, post-1945 decolonization, and other revolutionary struggles around the world to shape the politics of the African diaspora locally and transnationally. Combining mini-lectures and a reading-seminar format, the course introduces students to key texts and cutting-edge scholarship in the study of Black internationalism. To this end, thus, each student will lead and facilitate discussion twice during the semester in pairs and complete two critical synthesis assignments (three-pages in length). The final project (10-pages in length) will involve historical research using primary sources. Students who are interested in the international study of African American history, Black radicalism, and social movements are encouraged to take this course.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26191/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 24 April 2014

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