Black Radicals. USA, 1900 - 1930s - Einzelansicht

In this seminar, we will read and discuss texts by and about Black activists of the early 1900s, such as George Schuyler, Marus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois (this is a tentative list). Our main focus lies on informing ourselves about what members of the Black community in the USA at the time identified as the very root (radix) of Black exploitation, and how they proposed to eradicate it, thus directing our thoughts to a) African American traditions of anti-Racism prior to the Civil Rights movement and b) ideas of anti-racism other than assimilation, that emerge with and in the political climate of modernism.

Materials will include entertaining literature, pamphlets, treatises, and movies.

Testat - a written submission, consisting of two critical reviews of academic essays plus a short critical essay

Module thesis, if required by module catalogue