COML 6460

Pan-Africanism and Feminism: Theoretical Intersections

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This course examines the particular theoretical intersections of panafricanism and feminism through a study of works which address the lives of activist women and men who lived political lives which demanded an articulation of this intersection. It will examine representative texts in each of these broad fields, paying particular attention to those works which explicitly address the intersection. Students will select and study the work of one thinker in either category and examine the written life from a few angles. In particular, we will address the conflicts, disjunctures and slippages between these positions; the possibilities and limitations as expressed by these thinkers; and the issues of collaboration, erasure articulated. Students will also have the opportunity to identify and discuss popular culture which addresses these themes.

When Offered Fall.

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