Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students leave this course with a more informed understanding of American slavery as it relates to our current world. It takes popular tropes from our contemporary language and connects them to marginalized texts from centuries ago to critically examine discourses of identity, power, racism, and law.
Would you understand the #MeToo era better if you had read Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl? What are we laughing at when Saturday Night Live‘s Leslie Jones jokes that she would be the most useful woman in antebellum America? This interdisciplinary course explores how resistance strategies of Black women from and after the time of slavery can be applied to our current moment. How Did We Get Here? From Slavery to #MeToo Harvard College students see important degree credit information. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Key topics include Black anti-slavery and anti-imperialism Black Marxism Black feminism intersectionality and reparations. This course introduces students to some of the key texts and ideas in the history of Black radical thought since the nineteenth century. Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Assignments address pressing real-world questions related to food justice, labor politics, and social inequality, drawing from our individual and collective experiences. Interdisciplinary course readings weave together threads of profound historical and contemporary debates on race, class, and consumption. We explore elements of the mundane-the morning pastry, the bottle of water, or the spices forgotten in our cabinets-all items that not only play a role in the movement of billions of dollars around the world, but also in the access to fundamental rights and equity in the lives of all people. Together, we analyze the interplay of food and labor, taste and power, race and consumption, community and capitalism, luxury and inequality, food sovereignty and celebrity, and responsibility and repair. This course examines the intersection of race, class, and consumption in historical and contemporary food politics. Our intimate experiences of food as something we consume in our bodies create social niches in which the consumption of luxury items by connoisseurs allows for claims of superior status, taste, and ethics. Food and nutrition, primary and recurrent needs of all human beings, also become deeply entrenched in social meaning making. Today, a heavy burden is placed on consumers to understand the social justice (or lack thereof) of the products that they purchase. Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Particular attention is given to three questions: is there an African philosophy or simply philosophy in Africa? What is the relationship between African philosophy and questions of modernity and tradition? How do issues of diversity and identity inform the nature of African philosophy? These questions are examined in a classroom environment mediated by dialogue, debates, and class presentations. The course focuses on fundamental dimensions of Africana philosophy: history, method, logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, religion, and politics.
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This course examines Africana philosophy as a field of study practiced by professional philosophers of African Descent and non-African philosophers.
Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University and Professor, Liberal Arts, Berklee College of Music
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