Syllabus
The full course syllabus and the first readings will be available in the first week of the semester. Sessions will consist of short lectures, student led discussions and classroom excercises. Course requirements include leading the discussion, a short response papers and a term paper.
Block I (6.10.2023): White Innocence and the In/visibilities of Racial Formations
Block II (3.11.2023): Gender, Racial Schemas and Premature Death
Block III (24.10.2023): Silence and Absences in the Archive
Block IV (15.12.2023): Racial and gendered Trans/Formations and Utopias
Recommended Literature
Mbembe, Achille (2019) Necro-Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Judith Butler (2003) Endangered/Endangering:schematic racism and white paranoia.
Yasmin Gunartnam (2013) Death and the Migrant. London: Bloomsbury.
Wekker, Gloria 2016 White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, Durham: Duke University Press.
Annotation
This course introduces students into the racial structuring of contemporary societies that purport to foster equality including their bio- and necropolitics, the forgotten places of slow death and white innocence. Of particular interest are questions of how we can take account of histories and experiences that are not integrated into historical discourses or archives, and what forms of futurity might inhere in these histories and everyday practices and sensations.