AFS 307 Black Social and Political Thought

This course surveys the development and maturation of black social and political thought in the context of the arrivals and departures of African descended peoples and communities in North America from the inception of the Transatlantic slave trade to the Present. Black political thought in the African American experience is the primary focus of the course with some consideration of the interactions of this community with the broader black diaspora. In undertaking this task, this course concentrates on the meaning and practice of politics in the African America experience. By centering on debates, discussions, and conversations within African American political thought, this course explores black political engagement in the context of the initial exclusion of blacks from the political sphere to their eventual integration into the body politic of the United States. In recounting and describing this process, this course aims to expose students to the motives, means, and aspirations black thinkers attributed to both the possibility of the potential of multiracial democracy in the United States and probability of the necessity to consider leaving the United States to establish a black nation in another country.    

Instructor

Pride