Special Topics in Political Theory: History of African American Political Thought

Semester
Fall 2024
Instructor(s)
Units
4
Section
1
Number
116J
CCN
24431
Times
Tu/Th 2-3:30pm
Location
LEWS100
Course Description

This course explores central themes and ideas in the history of African American political thought: slavery and freedom, solidarity and sovereignty, exclusion and citizenship, domination and democracy, inequality and equality, rights and respect. Readings will be drawn, primarily, from canonical authors, including, among others: Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, and Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an introductory course, which emphasizes both thematic and historical approaches to the study of political theory.

 

Subfield: Either American Politics or Political Theory