This course will explore the spatiality of African descendant people in the United States and in the larger Black diaspora, rethinking power, society & culture, knowledge production, and social movement through Blackness. It enters Blackness as a mode of political identification in memoir, folklore, ethnography, speculative fiction, essay, hybrids, photographs, and maps. As a conceptual apparatus for the course, ?the imaginaire? concerns counter-canonical forms of knowledge, our daily existence, as well as our most fundamental relationships ?