Political Science 372 - Black Political Thought
Fall
2020
01
4.00
Adam Dahl
M 2:30PM 5:00PM
UMass Amherst
65135
Fully Remote Class
adahl@umass.edu
A reexamination of central concepts in the history of political thought - e.g. power, equality, freedom, capitalism, domination, responsibility, citizenship, empire, and revolution - from the perspective of African American political struggles. Particular attention will be paid to how political thinkers have theorized the complex and contradictory relationship between race and modern democracy. Readings draw from David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, WEB Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)
Open to seniors & juniors only. POLISC171,203,272/3orAFROAM101