The full course syllabus will be available at the first meeting. Sessions will consist of lectures and student led discussions, and course requirements include leading the discussion, short response papers and a term paper. At this point we envision in-class teaching, and possibly some ‘walkshops.’ Students are asked to bring masks to class.

In week 5 we will have a guest lecture by prof Gabrielle Ivinson on Devising arts-based methods to enable the affective traces of intergenerational trauma to be expressed.

Themes include: Colonial histories and white innocence; the slippery category of race; racialised embodiment and difference; disposable lives; racial melancholia; critical fabulation; decolonizing methodlogies; transracialism, diversity policies, intersectionality, and more.

recommended literature

Alcoff, Linda M (2015) The Future of Whiteness. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Koobak, Redi and Madina Tlostanova (2021) Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges. London: Routledge.

Eng, David L and Shinhee Han (2019 Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation, Durham: Duke University.

Nash, Jennifer (2019) Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Durham: Duke University Press.