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PLTC314

Space is the Place: Speculative Fiction and Black Radical Thought

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