Postgraduate Course: Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others (PHIL11211)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the writings and theories of revolutionary Black intellectuals in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, as well as critical analyses of existing Eurocentric paradigms (feminism, Marxism, liberalism, etc.), with particular attention to the Western construct of the Human. |
| Course description |
This course will introduce students to the radical Black traditions that challenge white supremacy, colonialism, and integrationism from the mid-1900s to present. This class is specifically geared towards the production of radical philosophies of liberation and anti-colonial thought that do not reside within the confines of Eurocentric thought or remain dependent on Europe's philosophical anthropology of the Human.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- explain the various figures and authors of decolonial theory
- explain and analyze various theories and arguments in decolonial theory with reference to a particular case or cases
- understand the relationship between decolonialism and other areas of philosophy
- develop and explain their views of decolonization
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Reading List
The following readings are for illustrative purposes, since the course content and the readings will change from year to year.
Huey P. Newton, 'War on the Panthers,' Newton, 'Fear & Doubt,' 'In Defense of Self-Defense,' 'Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation,' 'Eve: The Mother of All Living,' and 'Dialectics of Nature,' in Huey P. Newton Speaks (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002), and Newton and Erickson, In Search of Common Ground (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1973.'
Sylvia Wynter, 'Ethno-Socio Poetics,' Alcheringa 2 (1976): 78-94; Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant & the New Discourse of the Antilles,' World Literature Today 63.4 (1989): 637-648; 'Toward the Sociogenic Principle & What It is Like to be Black,' in National Identities and Sociopolitical Change in Latin America, eds. Mercedes Duran-Cogan & Antonio Gomez-Moriana [New York: Routledge, 2001], 30-66).
A.J. Williams-Myers, Destructive Impulses: An Examination of an American Secret in Race Relations (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995).
Robert Allen, Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History (Read: Introduction, Ch.3 'Black Nationalism,' Ch.6-'Black Radicals,' & Ch.7-'Transitional Program'), & Claudia Jones 'An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women,' in Beyond Containment, ed. Carole Boyce Davies (Banbury: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd., 2011), 74-86.
Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, white Mask (New York: Grove Press, 1952).
Octave Mannoni, Prospero & Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950).
Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 2005).
Frantz Fanon: 'Racism and Culture,' 'Decolonization and Independence,' and 'First Truths of the Colonial Problem,' in Toward the African Revolution.
Steve Biko: 'white Racism and Black Consciousness,' and 'What is Black Consciousness,' 'The Definition of Black Consciousness,' and 'Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity,' in I Write What I Like
Robert F. Williams - Negroes w/Guns (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963).
Kathleen Cleaver, 'Women, Power, Revolution,' in Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party (New York: Routledge, 2001), 123-128.
Linda La Rue, 'The Black Movement and Women's Liberation,' The Black Scholar (1970): 36-42.
Assata Shakur, 'Chapters 1-3,' and 'Chapters 8 & 9' in Assata: An Autobiography (UK: Zed Books Ltd, 1987).
Kristin Bumiller, In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018).
David Marriott, Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being (Red Wood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018).
Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism (London: Liveright, 2020). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical Analysis, Applied Knowledge and Understanding, Autonomy |
| Keywords | White Supremacy,Colonialism,Empire,Racism,Dehumanization |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Tommy Curry
Tel: (0131 6)51 3083
Email: T.J.Curry@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sabina Ali
Tel: (0131 6) 50 4400
Email: Sabina.Ali@ed.ac.uk |
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