Week 3: Theories of Race and Colonialism

Monday, September 13

For today, prepare:

• Read (7 pages + 24 pages + 12 pages): 
  Fanon, Frantz. [1952] 2008. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized
  • Chapter 5: The Lived Experience of the Black Man (at least up to page 101; you can read more of course)
• Read (12 pages): 
  Du Bois, W. E. B. [1903] 2018. The Souls of Black Folk. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• Watch (64 min): 
  Stuart Hall, “Race: The Floating Signifier” https://newschool.kanopy.com/video/race-floating-signifier-stuart-hall 
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Wednesday, September 15

For today, prepare:

• Read (47 [small!] pages): Césaire, Aimé. [1950] 2000. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
• Watch (94 min): 
  Peck, Raoul (dir.). 2016. “I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America.” https://newschool.kanopy.com/video/i-am-not-your-negro 
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• Watch (60 min): 
  bell hooks. 1997. “Cultural Criticism and Transformation” https://newschool.kanopy.com/video/bell-hooks-cultural-criticism-transformation 
  TW: There’s some violent images/scenes in this lecture
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Supplemental Resources:

• Asad, Talal, ed. 1973. Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books.
• Hartman, Saidiya V. 2008. Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
• Lewis, Diane. 1973. “Anthropology and Colonialism.” Current Anthropology 14 (5): 581–602. https://doi.org/10.1086/201393.
• Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Said, Edward W. 1979. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
• AnthroPod episode “(W)Rap on: Race” https://culanth.org/fieldsights/wrap-on-race
• AnthroPod episode “AnthroBites: Scientific Racism” https://culanth.org/fieldsights/anthrobites-scientific-racism
• AnthroPod episode “Kamari M. Clarke on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World” https://culanth.org/fieldsights/kamari-m-clarke-on-cultural-citizenship-in-the-black-atlantic-world