SHUM 4510

Black in Time

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

In the seminar "Black in Time" we will explore temporally specific, yet often interconnected iterations of blackness, in an attempt to account for how blackness has been experienced, conceptualized, articulated, practiced, politicized, historicized, and theorized across time and space. From the seventeenth-century West African Sahel, where shifting categories of blackness were articulated long before the advent of French colonial rule, to the twentieth century's globally interconnected black freedom struggles, we will plot out chronologies of blackness to better discern the conditions under which blackness becomes a meaningful, yet ever mutating signifier. We will also consider how and why time itself has become increasingly racialized through the emergence of new temporal categories, like post-Black and post-racial.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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