For precise schedule of offerings see department catalog during pre-enrollment week each semester.

This seminar encourages critical reading of the historiography of colonialism, racism, and resistance. It charts how and why Western colonialism has asserted a racial hierarchy and how this hierarchy has been resisted by anti-colonial individuals and movements, from W.E.B. Dubois to Edward Said. The seminar focuses in particular about the challenges and ethics of solidarity of the oppressed in the face of colonial worldmaking and raises the question of how to translate discrepant historical experiences, each of which develops its own political and moral vocabulary, its own imperative of anticolonialism, and its own temporality, into a single frame of analysis.

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