2013-2014 Academic Catalog

Jun 02, 2024

2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSCI 265 - Black Political Thought

This course explores the historical experience of “blackness” as it has been constructed, contested and affirmed in various historical and narrative contexts, assessing that concept’s history as a political resource by carefully reading selected texts within the African-American political theoretical tradition. This course focuses on the various ideologies and strategies that have informed the African American quest for human fulfillment, self-actualization and equity in the United States of America by highlighting the twentieth and twenty-first century contributions of scholars. The course will focus on major philosophical, theoretical, and ideological formulations put forward during the twentieth century. In light of the historic and contemporary problems associated with race, class, and gender oppression, the course will also probe carefully the manner in which these structures of domination and exploitation have influenced the lives of Black women and men.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered