Black Radical Thinkers and the Caribbean

Description

Explores how the Black Caribbean scholars transformed race, nation, and class; expanded Blackness as a political stance and identity; and brought together Black radical traditions across the globe. The trans-Atlantic slave trade and capitalist expansion in the Caribbean radically altered notions of race, class, nation, and Blackness. Since then, Caribbean scholars have contributed new social theory through their critique and engagement with race and capitalism, exchange of ideas with Black scholars in the U.S., Europe, and Africa, and commentary on events across the world. Using the Caribbean as a starting point, the class seeks to define, interrogate, and expand what is meant by race, nation, and class through the lens of Blackness and introduces Caribbean scholarship as a site of global political, social, and cultural thought. This course originates in Sociology and is crosslisted with: Africana Studies; Ltn Am, Caribbean & Latinx St. (Same as: SOC 1018 , LACL 1048 ) Terms offered: 2023 Fall Semester; 2025 Fall Semester