Black Studies. A Critical Introduction

Thompson, Vanessa E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-wec8-ka34

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Black people are particularly vulnerable to forms of social and premature death in the current crises of liberal democracies and neoliberal racial capitalism. The necropolitical regimes in the Mediterranean Sea, the Prison Industrial Complex, mass criminalization, policing and environmental racism are just some of the modalities of structural violence that especially poor black people are exposed to in postcolonial capitalist societies. In this seminar, we will analyze and discuss scholarship within the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies that situates antiblackness within the legacies of enslavement, colonialism, and conjunctures of racial capitalism. The course introduces students to some of the key approaches (Black Radicalism, Racial Capitalism, Black Resistances, Black and African Feminisms, Afro-Pessimism) and concepts (such as fugitivity, marronage, Black Pacific, Black Atlantic and Black Mediterranean), and will engage with resistances and the politics of Black life from a transnational and feminist perspective.

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