How did we arrive at this version of an Anthropocene, and where do we imagine our futures?

How do we, without reducing Garner’s life to his death, attend to the ways that Black breathlessness has become—in fact, has been—a defining factor of Blackness?

This course serves as an introduction to the histories, theories, philosophies, and aesthetic representations of Black enslavement from the 15th century to American Reconstruction.

This course focuses on the theories, histories, and philosophies of racial capitalism from its origins to the contemporary moment.

“Water is the “romantic metaphor that has irredeemably made its place in the Caribbean and African diasporic studies.”

Part II of the year-long “Reading Slavery” course.

This course engages students in a multisensory exploration of Black and Queer theory, honing critical skills in reading, viewing, listening, and “making.”