HIST 2096
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Classes
HIST 2096
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
What are intellectuals and why should we care about them? And how are they, like everyone else, inscribed in racial and social hierarchies that condition both their position in a broader social world and the very content of their interventions? In exploring these questions, this course will take a capacious approach that includes women, colonial subjects, and less formally-trained "organic" intellectuals, in addition to understanding the specific French origins of the term. Together we will work with thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, and lesser known Brazilian authors. We will discuss psychoanalysis, Marxism, anticolonial politics, and racial inclusion, constantly drawing texts and social contexts into dialogue. Ultimately students' final research papers will address a given intellectual, work, movement, or concept.
When Offered Fall.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Merkel, I