Anthropology and (Anti)-Blackness
ANTH 220
Fall 2024
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This course considers the intellectual and institutional developments of psychoanalysis and anthropology in the 19th and 20th centuries and the ways in which these disciplines defined a figure of the human that excluded the "African," the "Black," "the Negro" from the capacity to signify the universal. By examining these constitutive occlusions of race, the course considers the ways in which the "unthought" status of racial blackness, in particular, animates and aggravates the discipline of anthropology. The course will move from introductory readings in classical anthropology and psychoanalysis and a selection of works in Black critical thought towards contemporary scholarship that reappraises these fraught questions. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
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| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Gregory Bateson, Frantz Fanon, Sigmund Freud, Lorand Matory, Rosalind Morris, and others as well as films such as Les Maîtres Fous Kempinsk and Concerning Violence.
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| Instructor(s): Faux,Chloé Samala Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: ANTH6; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 14 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 4 | FR: 5 |
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