Political Science 390T - Anticolonial Thought&Politics

This course will provide a broad survey of anticolonial thought and politics in the twentieth century. In exploring the intellectual foundations of anticolonial political thought, we will use the works of leaders and intellectuals of a wide array of anticolonial movements as lenses through which to examine the politics of decolonization. Readings will come from a wide array of figures, including but not limited to C.L.R. James, Aime Cesaire, Mahatma Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, B.R. Ambedkar, George Manuel, Huey Newton, and Abdullah Ocalan. We will thus look at a broad range of geographic contexts regarding the struggles of colonized peoples in the United States and Canada, the Caribbean, India, Algeria, West Africa, Latin America, and Kurdistan.

Open to sophomore, junior & senior Political Science primary majors and junior & senior STPEC majors.