In-depth exploration of specific topics in African American history from the late 19th century to the present. Repeatable twice when the topic changes for a maximum of 12 credits.
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Expanded Course Description
Following the 2000 reissue of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, a Black radical tradition had been celebrated for its immanent theoretical critique of and political struggle against what Robinson termed “racial capitalism.” Yet the canonization of the Black radical tradition has not unfolded without contestation and debate. What is the Black radical tradition? Who belongs in it? How has it been shaped by—or departed from—Marxist traditions of critique and struggle? How does it relate to racial capitalism—and how does racial capitalism differ from capitalism? Finally, how do we reconcile its radicalism with the notion that it constitutes a “tradition”—a term that connotes the very opposite of radicalism, subversion, and transgression? In this course we will attempt to answer these questions through a close reading of Robinson’s seminal book alongside critical engagements with his efforts to establish a Black radical tradition. We will then turn our attention to the historical movements and characters that might comprise a Black radical tradition, using Robin D.G. Kelley’s Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches as our guides. Applies towards US History field requirement.
