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Spring 2013 Middle East G6144 section 001 READINGS IN AFRICAN INTEL HIST | |
| Call Number | 25553 |
| Day & Time Location |
W 11:00am-12:50pm 207 KNOX HALL |
| Points | 3 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Kai Kresse |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | This seminar explores how Black leaders, intellectuals, and artists chose to imagine Blacks (African and people of African descent) as a global community from the late 19th century to the present. It examines their attempts to chart a course of race, modernity and emancipation in instable and changing geographies of empire, nation, and state. Particular attention will be given to manifestations identified as their common history and destiny and how such a distinctive historical experience have created a unique body of reflections on and cultural productions about modernity, race, religion, class, gender and sexuality, in a context of domination and oppression. “Pan Africanist” ideologies were very diverse from Garveyism, Negritude to the various African American, Caribbean and African discourses of “neo-pharaohnism” and “Ethiopianism”. This seminar focuses on Negritude. Negritude was one of the many ways in which black people from the French Empire first began to articulate notions of “blackness”, a way of conceiving of a kind of subjectivity that would transcend the deep divisions between Arabs, West Indian Africans, continental Africans and other members of the Black Diaspora and allow them to come together and find a new form of self-respect. They carved in Paris, the imperial metropolis, an imperial public sphere to sustain a conversation between imperial subjects – in particular but not only among Blacks - about citizenship, nationalism, universalism, modernity and race. Their goal: locate and/or reconcile African modes of thought, traditional African Humanism and a complex recreation of universalism. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies |
| Enrollment | 4 students as of 11:27PM Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| Subject | Middle East |
| Number | G6144 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Open To | Graduate School of Arts and Science, Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate, International and Public Affairs |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Section key | 20131MDES6144G001 |
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