SOC 580
Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Globalization
Winter 2024
Topics
- Identify key theoretical concepts in the study of ‘race’, culture and identity in the Black Atlantic diaspora
- Review and critically appraise writing on ‘race’, culture and identity in the Black Atlantic diaspora
- Synthesize information and knowledge on Black philosophy and politics from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives
Readings
- Beckles, Hilary (2013) Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide. Jamaica/Trinidad and Tobago/Barbados: University of the West Indies Press
- Curry, Tommy (2017) The Man-Not: race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
- Fanon, Frantz (1986) Black Skins, White Masks. London: Pluto Press
- Gordon, Lewis Ricardo (1997) Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
- Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
- Holland, Sharon Patricia (2012) The Erotic life of Racism. Durham: Duke University Press
- Jackson, Shona N (2014) Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- King, Tiffany L (2019) The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Native Studies. Durham and London: Duke University Press
- McKittrick, Katherine (2014) Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Durham: Duke University Press
- Mills, Charles (2017) Black Rights/ White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Mills, Charles (1997) The Racial Contract. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Patterson, Orlando (2018) Slavery and Social Death. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Rodney,
- W. (1986) The Grounding with my Brothers. London: Bogle-L’Ouverture Press Ltd
- Sexton, Jared (2017) Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press
- Sharpe, Christina (2010) Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press
- Spillers, Hortense (2003) Black, White and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, Chicago:
- Weheliye, Alexander G. (2014) Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Durham: Duke University Press
- Wilderson, Frank B 111 (2020) Afropessimism. New York: Liveright
- De B’béri, B. E. and Louw, P.E. (2011) ‘Afro-pessimism: a genealogy of discourse’ Critical Arts, 25:3, 335346
- Mills C. (1997) The Racial Contract, Cornell University Press: Ithaca, Chapter 1 Overview pp.9-40
- Sexton, J. (2011) The social life of social death: On Afro-pessimism and Black optimism, Intensions 5
- Gibbons, A. (2011) Legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean, University Press of America
- Hartman, S. (1997) Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America. NY/Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1 Innocent amusements: The stage of sufferance
- Henry, P. (2000) Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy ‘Sylvia Wynter: Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Thought, Routledge
- Lewis, R. (1998) Walter Rodney’s Intellectual and Political Thought, Wayne State University Press
- Lewis, R. (1998) Walter Rodney: 1968 Revisited, Canoe Press
- Munroe, T and Robotham D. (1978) Struggles of The Jamaican People. Workers’ Liberation League
- Patterson, O. 2nd edition (2018) Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press Chapter 2- Authority, alienation and social death
- Rodney, W. (1968) West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, Cambridge Africa Research Group
- Rodney, W. (1972) How Europe Under-developed Africa, Bogle-L’Ouverture Press
- Rodney, W. (1986) The Grounding with my Brothers, Bogle-L’Ouverture Press
- Rodney, W. (1981) A History of the Guyanese People 1881-1905, John Hopkins University Press
- Rodney, W. (1995) Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual, Africa Research and Publications
- Sharpe, C. (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press Chapter 1- The wake
- Webster, M. O. (2008) Seeing darkly: Guyana, Black Power and Walter Rodney’s expulsion from Jamaica, Small Axe, 25, Vol. 11, No. 2, February
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- Hall, S. (1980) ‘Race’, articulation and societies structured in dominance’ reprinted 1996 in Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader, H.A. Baker, M. Diawara and R.H. Lindeborg (eds.), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
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- Gordon, L. R. (1997) Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc
- Gordon, L. R. (1997) Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, Routledge
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Topics
- Identify key theoretical concepts in the study of ‘race’, culture and identity in the Black Atlantic diaspora
- Review and critically appraise writing on ‘race’, culture and identity in the Black Atlantic diaspora
- Synthesize information and knowledge on Black philosophy and politics from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives
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