GOVT 6865
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Classes
GOVT 6865
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
This seminar is an intensive study of the political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. Approaching texts in contexts, we will seek to recover King the political thinker from his mythologization in American political culture by carefully reading his books, speeches, sermons, interviews, notes, and correspondence as illocutionary interventions into the major crises and ideological disputes of twentieth century American politics. Topics we will explore include the politics of dignity, leadership and mass politics, rhetoric and democratic persuasion, law and direct action, nonviolence, loss and mourning, race and political economy, global justice, and the practices of prophetic critique. Along the way, we will study King in dialogue with both his contemporaries as well as more recent interventions in the study of civil disobedience, racial capitalism, and Afro-modern political thought.
When Offered Spring.
Course Subfield (PT)
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 6865, ASRC 6865, GOVT 4000, RELST 6865
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Livingston, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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