AFR 476
Black Radicalism Spring 2015
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed HIST 476
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“Amandla! Black Power! Venceremos! A Luta Continua!” Ever since the end of slavery–occurring, in part, due to the efforts of Black radicals from Haiti to South Carolina to the Quilombos of Brazil–transatlantic people of African descent have demanded radical change in the organization of modern societies. Their struggles and ideas have changed the ways we think and study–through the formation of Africana/African-American/Black-Studies–and the ways in which we express ideas–through the creation of rich traditions of music, dance, theater, poetry, carnivals, sculpture, and art that have acted as global conduits of cultures of resistance. In this Senior Seminar, we will study the interdisciplinary history of Black radicalism–in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa–from W.E.B. Dubois to the present, paying special attention to Black working class and feminist challenges to capitalism and sexism, (e.g. A. Philip Randolph, Angela Davis), to the uses of Black Power to challenge Black societies (Walter Rodney), to African socialism (Nyerere, Nkrumah), to musicians and poets, like Bob Marley and Aimé Césaire, whose rhythms and example continue to inspire us to fight for social justice and equality.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3129
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation to be based on student participation, a take-home mid-term paper, and the completion of an original research paper or project; all projects will have some written component, but may include a dance performance, spoken word, fieldwork etc.
Extra Info 2: we will have a number of shared class/discussns w/ Mt. Holyoke's Africana Senior Seminar via video-skype; the class will visit Mt. Holyoke, & we will host a visit from the Mt. Holyoke seminar, organized around speakers, presentations, & local activists
Prerequisites: none; open to all
Enrollment Preferences: Africana Studies concentrators; History majors
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AFR 476 Division II HIST 476 Division II
Attributes: AFR Core Electives
HIST Group A Electives - Africa
HIST Group D Electives - Latin America + Caribbean
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada

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