76-406 Introduction to Black Studies
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This seminar will take an interdisciplinary, historical and transnational approach to the field of Black Studies. We will focus on key figures, events, debates, terms, books, essays, and anthologies that anticipate as well as constitute the emergence of Black Studies as a discipline in the wake of Black student protests in the 1960s. Since this seminar is being offered in an English Department, we will spend a significant part of our seminar discussing the political, methodological and institutional impact of Black Studies on English Departments after 1968. In particular we will explore the fraught relationship between Black Studies and AfricanAmerican Studies as well as investigate the intertwined institutional history of these two fields throughout the late twentieth and into the twentyfirst century. We will undoubtedly read and read about figures like W.E.B Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Franz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Angela Davis, Molefi Kete Asante and Saidiya Hartman to name a few.
Prerequisites: 76-101 or 76-102 or (76-106 and 76-108) or (76-106 and 76-107) or (76-107 and 76-108)
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