BLST 501: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Black Studies
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Course Description
Graduate introductory seminar to the intellectual traditions, theoretical frameworks, and methodological innovations shaping the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies.
4 credit hours.
Past Texts Include
Ruha Benjamin, Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience and Liberatory Imagination
Paul Butler, Chokehold; Policing Black Men
Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks
Richard Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture In the Post-Civil Rights Era