| Course Title: Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| 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 |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Discussion | Tuesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 218 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Africana Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race Political Economy. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| CRPE0001 | CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor. |
| CRPE0002 | CRPE-2: Africana Studies - Major Pathway/Minor | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Africana Studies major pathway and the CRPE Africana Studies minor. |
| CRPE0003 | CRPE-3: Critical Social Thought - Major Pathway | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Critical Social Thought major pathway. |
| 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 |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 10 | Available: 8 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: wayward lives, beautiful experiments Author: hartman, saidiya Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393357622 Publisher: ww norton |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: freedom dreams Author: kelley, robin Copyright: 2022 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780807007037 Publisher: beacon press |
Required | 20.00 |
| Title: w. e. b. Dubois Author: Alexander, Shawn Leigh Copyright: 2015 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781442207400 Publisher: rowan and littlefield |
Required | 35.00 |
| Title: let us descend Author: ward, jesmyn Copyright: 2023 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781982104498 Publisher: scribner |
Required | 15.00 |
| Title: the origins of capitalism Author: wood, ellen m Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781786630681 Publisher: verso |
Recommended | 15.00 |
| Title: late fascism Author: toscano, Albert Copyright: 2023 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781839760204 Publisher: verso |
Required | 25.00 |
| Title: how to abolish prisons Author: herzing, Rachel (and Justin Piche Copyright: 2018 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9798888900833 Publisher: Haymarket Books |
Required | 20.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |