HIST 309
The Discourse of Dissent
Winter 2023
Topics
- Rhetoric and collective action
- Pan-Africanism
- Art, music, and resistance during decolonization
Readings
- Things Fall Apart
- Gwendolyn Brooks — selected poems
- James Baldwin — Notes of a Native Son
- Frantz Fanon — Toward the African Revolution, chapter 2.
- Ben Enwonwu — Problems of the African Artist Today
- Kwame Nkrumah — speech at the founding of the Organisation for African Unity (1963).
- Shirley Clarke — Portrait of Jason (1967 film).
- Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 — Gentleman or Zombie (listening selection).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2023
- Source cross-list uses the former prefix SPCOM 434; current catalogue uses COMMST 434.