Spring 2024 Anthropology UN3800 section 001

Black Death

Call Number 14761
Day & Time
Location
T 10:10am-12:00pm
963 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Lashaya Howie
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

he term ‘black death’ circulates in scholarship and public discourses often without a clear definition or attribution to a specific thinker. It can do this because the term is commonsensical—naming the unfortunate relationship between Black people and death. This seminar surveys death as an object of inquiry, metaphor, political occasion, and inspiration for aesthetic creation. Reading texts and engaging other materials across disciplines, genres, and media while focusing on Anthropology and African American Studies, the course recognizes that the threads of race and death are inherently global and connected to European colonial imperial expansion, racism, capitalism, and modernity. Throughout the course we ask: What is the relationship between Black people or “blackness” and death? Is “black death” unique? How do we take seriously ubiquitous legacies of antiblack violence while also accounting for socio-historical specificity? What are the attendant practices, creations, and modes of thinking and being responsive to black death? At the end of the course, students will have honed skills in close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful discussion through the study of race and death. This is an advanced level course; students should have taken at least one course introductory critical race theories course (or similar) prior to enrolling.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 11 students (15 max) as of 9:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3800
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note The permission of the instrutor is required
Section key 20241ANTH3800W001