Critical Social Inquiry 0245 - Black/Palestinian Radicalism

This course is a comparative study of the Black Power Movement and Palestinian Liberation Movement and their artistic counterparts:Black Arts Movement and Palestinian Poetry of Resistance of the 1960s and 1970s. This study is interdisciplinary in nature and seeks to engage these movements on multiple levels: history, politics, ideology and aesthetics in order to highlight the multiple levels of their shared characteristics. The course is not only concerned with the shared roots of Black and Palestinian radical tradition forged at the time, but also their political and artistic legacies. It will draw connections between Black Power/Arts Movement and the rise of Palestinian Hip Hop, Palestinian-American spoken word poetry and the emergence of the Gaza to Ferguson movement.

Power, Community and Social Justice Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.