CTSJ 386 Blackness and Anti-Blackness

Critical race theorists have begun to describe a "new blackness," a "critical blackness," a "post-blackness," and an "unforgivable blackness." This emergent scholarship that describes a feminist New Black Man also seeks to "queer blackness," and to articulate a black sexual politics that addresses a "new racism." By calling us to examine the possibility of a black political solidarity that escapes the problems of identity politics, this scholarship provokes We Who Are Dark to imagine more complex and free identities. We will also consider the positionality of anti-blackness and it's antecedents. This course invites all of us to engage this scholarship.