PLTC314
Space is the Place: Speculative Fiction and Black Radical Thought
Politics
BC
Subject code
PLTC
Course Number
314
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
K. Bedecarré
Course Long Title
Space is the Place: Speculative Fiction and Black Radical Thought
Description
In this course, students engage works of science fiction literature, film, and music alongside radical and revolutionary Black political thought. By considering how Black social movements in the U.S. have risked imagining the seemingly impossible, we challenge the notion that transformative social change must be conceived and brought about wholly in ‘pragmatic’ terms. Instead we come to grasp how struggles to protect and enhance the lives of Black people are necessarily speculative projects.
Writing Credit
W2
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(PLTC: Identities & Interests), (PLTC: Phil., Lit., Legal St.)
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years
Offering Frequency
One-time offering