Political Science 791RC - S-ComparPolThry:RaceCivlEmpire

Examines the work of European political thinkers who have either justified or disavowed systems of European imperialism in conversation with postcolonial and anti-colonial thinkers who have contested those very systems of power. Readings include Du Bois, Kant, James, Rousseau, Bolivar, Montesquieu, Mariategui, Marx, Gandhi, Mill, Tocqueville, and Fanon.