| Course Title: Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: Examines the life, work, and legacies of WEB DuBois. Drawing on domestic and diasporic fictional and nonfictional meditations on black life and progress in and beyond the 'DuBoisian century,' the course considers the changing meanings of and movements for global racial justice for people of African descent. The course also confronts the globalization of the color line in the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Due to increasing precarity for the masses, emphasis is given to more recent ideas like afro-pessimism, racial capitalism, and afro-futurism, as contemporary responses to DuBois's 1903 question, 'How does it feel to be a problem?' Readings by Jemisin, Gyasi, Robinson, Fields, Butler, Davis, Ransby, Hartman, Wilderson, Fanon, YamahttaTaylor, among others form the core of the course. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lucas Wilson | 413-538-2432 | lbwilson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 102 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Africana Studies or Critical Social Thought. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFRAM0002 | AFRAM: African American concentration | This course has been approved to count towards the concentration in African American Studies within the African & African-American Studies major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought major | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| AFCNA-308-01 Luminous Darkness/DuBois |
| CST-349LD-01 Luminous Darkness/DuBois |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 8 | Available: 7 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: the luminous darkness Author: thurman, howard Copyright: 1965 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780944350072 Publisher: friends united press |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: afropessimism Author: wilderson 3rd, frank Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781324090519 Publisher: liveright |
Required | 17.00 |
| Title: black marxism Author: robinson, cedric Copyright: 1983 Edition: 3 Volume: ISBN: 9781469663722 Publisher: unc press |
Required | 20.00 |
| Title: wayward lives, beautiful experiments Author: hartman, saidiya Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393357622 Publisher: ww norton |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: in the wake Author: sharpe, christina Copyright: 2016 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780822362944 Publisher: duke u press |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: america on fire Author: hinton, elizabeth Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781631498909 Publisher: liveright |
Required | 15.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |