General Catalog 2022-23

Lecture, four hours. Exploration of some more powerful visions for freedom, liberation, and racial justice in African diasporic world, with focus on political struggles, intellectual movements, and creative expressions that formed part of radical black imagination during last century. Following of black diasporic citizens from Accra to Harlem to Havana as they struggled for freedom within and beyond movements against colonialism and racial oppression, for Pan-Africanism, feminism, and Negritude, and through utopian art forms like Afro-Futurism. Consideration of how black activists, artists, and intellectuals in various parts of globe have worked to envision and enact real possibilities for sovereignty and liberation both at home and abroad. Letter grading.