BLM: Ethics, Politics, and Prophecy

3 credits · Divinity School

This course examines the emergence and development of Black Lives Matter as a social movement for Black liberation. This course will focus on the ethical visions, political contexts, philosophical underpinnings, cultural roots and religious implications of Black struggles against systemic racism, group oppression and radical inequality that began after the death of Trayvon Martin and solidified after the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The course will engage issues such as police misconduct and brutality, anti-Black sentiment and anti-racist struggle and various modes of resistance and protest, voter suppression, queer identity and rights, and the persistent plague of white supremacy. Finally this course will grapple with the ethical rules, religious narratives and moral norms embedded in and addressed by contemporary Black freedom struggle. [3] Mr. Dyson