Theorizing Liberation: From Black Power to the Age of Trump

This reading-intensive undergraduate seminar examines how writers and scholars understood the roots of racial inequality and imagined political projects to dismantle racial oppression in the decades after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. We survey a number of landmark texts across a range of fields and genres that proposed different analytical frameworks for understanding racial oppression and liberation, and attempt to situate the texts in their historical context.