INSTRUCTORS: Colleen Glenney Boggs and Alysia Garrison

WEEKLY LEARNING GOALS

1. understanding the strategic use of the universal and the particular toward political change
2. an understanding that universality and particularity are in dialogue with one another
3. an ability to understand how issues of race need to be key to understanding that dialogue and the silences it can produce

 

READINGS

Framing:

• George Yancy and Judith Butler, “What’s Wrong with ‘All Lives Matter’?” New York Times, January 12, 2015. 
• Eddie S. Glaude, “A Requiem for Michael Brown/A Praisesong for Ferguson,” Theory & Event, 17.3, 2014 

Theory:

•  Hamilton Carroll, from “Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation,” Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, 1-10.
• Roland Barthes, “The Great Family of Man,” Mythologies, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1957, 100-102.
• [Optional: Judith Butler, “Restaging the Universal: Hegemony and the Limits of Formalism,” Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left.  London: Verso, 2000, 11-43.]

Literature:

•  Franz Fanon, “The Fact of Blackness,” Black Skin, White Masks.  New York: Grove Press, 1967, 109-140 and “Concerning Violence,” The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963, 35-109 [focus on 35-75].
• W.E.B. DuBois, “The Talented Tenth,” The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of Today, New York: 1903.
• The Speech of Moses Bon Sàam, a Free Negro, to the Revolted Slaves, London: 1735.