ANTHROP 782
Diasporas, Transnationalism and Religious Identities
Winter 2026 · Diasporas & Relig Identities · C01
Readings
- Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, ResilienceISBN 9780520397262
- Etext Return To Ruin - Permanent AccessISBN 9781503614123; 9781503614116
- Etext In The Wake: On Blackness And Being - Lifetime AccessISBN 9780822373452; 9780822362944
- Etext Republic Unsettled - Lifetime AccessISBN 9780822376286; 9780822357483
Winter 2026 · C01
Topics
- Johannes Anyuru, “Alhambra,” trans. Kira Josefsson, Words Without Borders , March 5, 2019, https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2019-03/march-2019-swedish-alhambra-johannes-anyuru-kira-josefsson/ *read and annotate in-class*
- Film: Majid Majidi, Baran (2001) (1hr 34min) *watch together in-class*
- Vinh Nguyen, Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience (California, 2023), first half
- Nguyen, Lived Refuge , second half
- Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke, 2016), first half
- Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (Vintage, 2001), selections
- Sharpe, In the Wake , second half
- W.E.B. duBois, “The Comet” [1920]
- Saidiya Hartman, “The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance,” BOMB Magazine , June 5, 2020, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-end-of-white-supremacy-an-american-romance/
- Stefania Pandolfo, “The Burning: Finitude and the Politico-Theological Imagination of Illegal Migration,” Anthropological Theory 7, no. 3 (2007): 329–63.
Readings
- Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, ResilienceUniversity of California Press
- In the Wake: On Blackness and BeingDuke University Press
- Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran DesertDuke University Press
- Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian ExileStanford University Press
- Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and NostalgiaStanford University Press
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Winter 2026
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2026