Social Thought & Polic. Econ 491H - STPEC Focus Seminar I
Spring
2019
01
4.00
Amilcar Shabazz
TU 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
20570
New Africa House Room 21
shabazz@umass.edu
A four credit honors seminar for junior and senior STPEC students who have completed STPEC 391H. Focus seminar topic changes each semester. Fulfills the STPEC Focus Seminar requirement for STPEC students.
Open to Senior and Junior STPEC majors only. STPEC 391H Topic Title: A Luta Continua: Africana Critical Theory and the Making of a Better World
We will investigate, critique, extend, reaffirm, and elaborate on the work, practice, and history of Amilcar Cabral and others that involved the channeling of outrage into a response rooted in strategy and unity that continuously seeks to improve itself and adapt to changing realities. It explores Cabral?s philosophical legacy as a source of living history in today?s world - a historical context qualitatively different from that in which they were created. A Luta Continua is a project of transmission and the cultivation of African intellectuality aimed at helping create new modes of social organization that resist anti-Black and anti-African violence, and ultimately liberate human beings from systemic oppression and exploitation.
We will investigate, critique, extend, reaffirm, and elaborate on the work, practice, and history of Amilcar Cabral and others that involved the channeling of outrage into a response rooted in strategy and unity that continuously seeks to improve itself and adapt to changing realities. It explores Cabral?s philosophical legacy as a source of living history in today?s world - a historical context qualitatively different from that in which they were created. A Luta Continua is a project of transmission and the cultivation of African intellectuality aimed at helping create new modes of social organization that resist anti-Black and anti-African violence, and ultimately liberate human beings from systemic oppression and exploitation.