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WiSe 20/21: Black Theory, Theories of Blackness: American Political Rhetoric and Aesthetics, 1895-2020

Frank Kelleter

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This seminar deals with select examples of African American political rhetoric and aesthetics between 1895 and 2020. Three initial sessions will be dedicated to key historical moments of Black protest rhetoric in the U.S. (Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey; Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movements; Black feminism). Additional sessions, to be prepared and organized by students, will cover the following theorists and theoretical paradigms: James Baldwin, the Combahee River Collective, Audre Lorde, Afropessimism, Black Marxism, Claudia Rankine, Hortense Spillers and Saidiya Hartman. All participants are expected to have read the Course Description before the start of the term so that they can sign up for a session in our first meeting—or propose an alternative topic by advance e-mail. ----- This seminar serves as “Hauptseminar” within Culture-Module C in the JFKI’s Master’s program. It is strongly recommended that you take this seminar together with the lecture course “American Culture after World War II”! If you cannot do so, you might want to choose a different seminar offered in Module C. Registration: All participants need to be registered via Blackboard and Campus Management by the first session. If you cannot register online or cannot attend the first session, please contact Prof. Kelleter before the beginning of the term. All communication about and within this class will be channeled through the course’s Blackboard site, so make sure you are registered there. Online Organization: Please download the Syllabus and Course Description (with a description of all requirements) from the “Teaching” section of Prof. Kelleter’s JFKI website or from Blackboard (go to “Kursmaterial”; you may have to click on “open Syllabus here” to download it; if this doesn’t work, try a different browser: students have reported problems with the Chrome browser). Please read the Syllabus/Course Description carefully: It contains detailed information about the seminar’s structure, its online organization, and suggestions for preparing “your” session. Note that we will finalize our class schedule in the first two meetings. This means that everyone who wants to attend this course needs to be present in the first online session (November 3) in order to sign up for a topic (student-run session) or have contacted Prof. Kelleter beforehand by e-mail (no later than November 2). First session: November 3. ----- (Synchronous Online-Course – Tuesday, 6.15-7.45 p.m., Webex) Schließen