(re)sources for (un)learning
Week 1 April 20/22 Introduction to the Course/Each other
Week 2 April 27/29 The revolutions of Revolution
Reading: Robin D G Kelley Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Introduction Amiri Baraka Amilcar Cabral Resistance and Decolonisation Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiments, Introduction Hanif Abdurraqib Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Chapter 1 Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons
Week 3 Black America: Call and Response to the Sounds of Revolution
Reading: Robin D G Kelley Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class Amiri Baraka (1966) The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music) Mark Anthony Neal (1998) “It Be’s That Way Sometimes ‘Cause I can’t Control the Rhyme”: Notes form the Post-SoulIntelligentsia Marquis Bey (2019) Three Theses: Black/Feminist/Queer Hanif Abdurraqib (2017) They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kills Us. Nina Simone was very black
Rhythm, Race, Revolution 