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SS-330 – Cultural Studies 

Pratt Institute

Social Science and Cultural Studies 

Spring 2025

 Instructor: Fania Noël, Ph.D   

COURSE DESCRIPTION & LEARNING GOALS:

This course explores the relations of cultural artifacts in the contemporary world to their various social contexts. Culture is understood as the material expressions and images that people create and the social environment that shapes the way diverse groups of people experience their world and interact with one another. The course focuses on the critical analysis of these various forms of media, design, mass communications, arts, and popular culture. Critical Black Studies and Black Feminisms Theory inform this course. It involves a critical and systematic examination of key works by influential thinkers, considering how they both contributed to and drew from larger intellectual movements. As an interdisciplinary, writing-intensive course, we will engage with seminal texts and ideas from these traditions while connecting them to contemporary culture, current events, and our creative and intellectual endeavors. 

The primary goals of this course are to:

  • Connect theoretical methods and concepts to creative and intellectual pursuits beyond the classroom.
  • Develop nuanced understandings of ourselves, others, and the social, cultural, and historical relationships that shape our interactions.
  • Use cultural studies to engage in reflective and metacognitive practices, fostering self-directed and motivated learning.

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: January 28 – Introduction

  • During, Simon. “Introduction.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 1–27. (27 pages)
  • Hsu, Hua. “Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies.” The New Yorker, 2017. (5 pages)
  • Barthes, Roland. “From Work to Text.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 56–68. (12 pages)
    Total pages: 44

Session 2: February 4 – Theory and Methods of Cultural Studies

  • Hall, Stuart. “Encoding, Decoding.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 90–103. (13 pages)
  • Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” In Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, 2002, pp. 95–119. (24 pages)
  • hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” Black American Cinema, Routledge, 2012, pp. 288–302. (14 pages)
    Total pages: 51

Session 3: February 11 – Place and Space

  • De Certeau, Michel. “Walking in the City.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 151–160. (9 pages)
  • McKittrick, Katherine. “On Plantations, Prisons, and a Black Sense of Place.” Social & Cultural Geography, vol. 12, no. 8, 2011, pp. 947–963. (16 pages)
  • “Black Geographies: Mapping Black Spaces and Places.” Black Feminisms, https://blackfeminisms.com/black-geographies/. (3 pages)
    Total pages: 28

Session 4: February 18 – Frankfurt School and Public Sphere

  • Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into the Category of Bourgeois Society. Translated by Thomas Burger, MIT Press, 1989, pp. 1–36. (36 pages)
  • Fraser, Nancy. “Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World.” Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 24, no. 4, 2007, pp. 7–13. (6 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Fraser, Nancy. Remaining sections, pp. 14–25. (12 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 42; Suggested: 12; Overall: 54

Session 5: February 25 – Culture and Distinction

  • Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Field of Cultural Production, or the Economic World Reversed.” Poetics, vol. 12, no. 4-5, 1983, pp. 311–336. (25 pages)
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge University Press, 1977, pp. 72–81. (10 pages)
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, “Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power,” pp. 159–176. (17 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Remaining sections from Outline of a Theory of Practice, pp. 82–95. (13 pages)
  • Hebdige, Dick. “From Culture to Hegemony.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 357–367. (10 pages)
  • Geary, P. (2020). The production of taste: ecologies, intersections, implications. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(3), 280–291.
    Total pages (requested): 42; Suggested: 34; Overall: 76

Session 6: March 4 – Surveillance and Violence

  • Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Random House, 1977, pp. 170–210. (40 pages)
  • Browne, Simone. “Branding Blackness: Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of Blackness.” Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Duke University Press, 2015, pp. 89–96. (7 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Poster, Winifred R. “Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy.” In Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, edited by Ruha Benjamin, pp. 133–166. (23 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 42; Suggested: 33; Overall: 76

Session 7: March 11 – Marxist Approaches (Mid-Term)

  • Gramsci, Antonio. “Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Bloc.” Prison Notebooks, pp. 189–221. (31 pages)
  • Marx, Karl. “Estranged Labor.” Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, translated by Martin Milligan. Available online: Marxist Archive. (10 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Marx, Karl. “The Power of Money.” Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, remaining sections, pp. 11–15. (5 pages)
  • Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Monthly Review Press, 1971, pp. 85–100. (15 pages)
  • Lettow, Susanne. “Biocapitalism.” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 2, 2018, pp. 6–8. (2 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 41; Suggested: 22; Overall: 63

Session 8: March 25 – Watching Race

  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, and Sneja Gunew. “Questions of Multiculturalism.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 193–200. (7 pages)
  • Gray, Herman S. “Television and the Politics of Difference.” American Studies: An Anthology, 2009, pp. 433–445. (12 pages)
  • Wallace, Michele. “Negative Images: Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism.” The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 118–139. (21 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Wallace, Michele. Remaining sections, pp. 140–131. (9 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 40; Suggested: 9; Overall: 49

Session 9: April 1 – Whiteness is a Country: Nation and Nationalism

  • Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “There Is No Such Thing as Western Civilization.” The Guardian, 2016. (7 pages)
  • Anderson, Benedict. “Introduction.” Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1983, pp. 1–9. (9 pages)
  • Fanon, Frantz. “On Violence.” The Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press, 1963, pp. 145–155. (10 pages)
  • Ong, Aiwha. Flexible Citizenship. Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 1–21. (20 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Mills, Charles. The Racial Contract, Chapter 1. Cornell University Press, 1997. (32 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 47; Suggested: 32; Overall: 79

Session 10: April 8 – Gender and Its Discontent

  • Oyẽwùmí, Oyẽọ́nké. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 1–20. (20 pages)
  • Butler, Judith. “Gender Is Burning.” Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge, 1993, pp. 81–99. (18 pages)
  • Ahmed, Sara. “A Phenomenology of Whiteness.” Feminist Theory, vol. 8, no. 2, 2007, pp. 149–165. (16 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Namaste, Viviane. “Undoing Theory: The ‘Transgender Question’ and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory.” Hypatia, vol. 24, no. 3, 2009, pp. 11–22. (12 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 54; Suggested: 12; Overall: 66

Session 11: April 15 – Feminisms and Antagonisms

  • Cho, Sumi K. “Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong.” In Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, edited by Adrien Katherine Wing, NYU Press, 2003, pp. 349–366. (17 pages)
  • Farris, Sara R. In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism. Duke University Press, 2017, Introduction, pp. 1–16. (16 pages)
  • Richardson, Trevor. “Objectification and Abjectification in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell.” Medium, 2017. (3 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Additional analysis of Ex Machina. (6 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 36; Suggested: 6; Overall: 42

Session 12: April 22 – Black Feminist Methodologies

  • Hill Collins, Patricia. “It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation.” Hypatia, vol. 13, no. 3, 1998, pp. 62–82. (20 pages)
  • Brooks, Daphne A. “Introduction.” Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Harvard University Press, 2021, pp. 9–49. (40 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Ashley Patterson et al. (15 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 40; Suggested: 15; Overall: 55

Session 13: April 29 – Bread and Circus: Spectacle, Love, and Technology

  • TV Show: Black Mirror – “San Junipero” (S03, Ep 4) and “15 Million Merits” (S01, Ep 2). Available on Netflix.
  • Beer, David. “Power Through the Algorithm? Participatory Web Cultures and the Technological Unconscious.” New Media & Society, vol. 11, no. 6, 2009, pp. 985–1002. (16 pages)
  • Gray, Herman. “The Feel of Life: Resonance, Race, and Representation.” International Journal of Communication, vol. 9, 2015, pp. 1108–1119. (11 pages)
  • Haraway, Donna. “The Cyborg Manifesto.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge, 1991, pp. 149–155. (6 pages)
  • Potter, Russell A. “History – Spectacle – Resistance.” In The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, Routledge, 1993, pp. 458–474. (16 pages)

Suggested Reading:

  • Haraway, Donna. “The Cyborg Manifesto.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge, 1991, pp. 155–181. (26 pages)

    Total pages (requested): 49; Suggested: 32; Overall: 77

Session 14: May 6 – The Day After the End of the World: Environment, Techno-Capitalism

  • Films: Mad Max: Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049. Available on streaming platforms.
  • Said, Edward. “Introduction.” Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978, pp. 1–28. (28 pages)
  • Wilson, Sheena, et al. “Introduction: On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else.” In Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, pp. 1–16. (16 pages)
    Suggested Reading:
  • Mbembe, Achille. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003, pp. 11–40. (29 pages)
    Total pages (requested): 44; Suggested: 29; Overall: 76

Session 15: May 13 – Final Exam

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SSWI-262T  Contemporary Theories of Gender

Pratt Institute

Social Science and Cultural Studies 

Spring 2025

 Instructor: Fania Noël, Ph.D   

Required texts 

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka

COURSE DESCRIPTION & LEARNING GOALS:

This course explores the relations of cultural artifacts in the contemporary world to their various social contexts. Culture is understood as the material expressions and images that people create and the social environment that shapes the way diverse groups of people experience their world and interact with one another. The course focuses on the critical analysis of these various forms of media, design, mass communications, arts, and popular culture. Critical Black Studies and Black Feminisms Theory inform this course. It involves a critical and systematic examination of key works by influential thinkers, considering how they both contributed to and drew from larger intellectual movements. As an interdisciplinary, writing-intensive course, we will engage with seminal texts and ideas from these traditions while connecting them to contemporary culture, current events, and our creative and intellectual endeavors. 

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: January 28, 2025 – Introduction

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 1

Required Readings (34 pages):

  • Chanter, T. 2007, “Introduction” and “Formative Moments,” in Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy (New York: Continuum), pp.1-30.
  • 1821, Petition to the Cherokee National Council by the Cherokee Women’s Councils (4 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. U of Minnesota Press, 1997. pp. 1-30.

Total Pages: Required (34), Suggested (30).

Session 2: February 4, 2025 – Gender and its Discontents

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 2-3

Required Readings (36 pages):

  • De Beauvoir, S. 2011, The Second Sex (New York: Vintage), introduction (8 pages).
  • Butler, Judith. “Gender is Burning.” In Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge, 2011, pp. 81-99 (18 pages).
  • Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: An American grammar book.” In The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Routledge, 2022, pp. 93-104 (11 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • hooks, bell (1982). Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. pp. 27-49 (22 pages).

Total Pages: Required (36), Suggested (22).

Session 3: February 11, 2025 – A Feminist Grammar

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 4
Required Readings (36 pages):

  • Murphy, M. 2015, “Reproduction,” in Mojab, S. (ed.), Marxism and Feminism (Zed Books), pp. 287-305 (18 pages).
  • Collective, Combahee River. “The Combahee River Collective Statement.” In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983: 264-274 (10 pages).
  • Anzaldua, G. 1984, Borderlands / La Frontera, pp. 23-35 (12 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” In Black American Cinema. Routledge, 2012, pp. 288-302 (14 pages).
  • Fluegel, J.C. 2004, “The Great Masculine Renunciation,” in Purdy (ed.), The Rise of Fashion: A Reader (Minnesota UP), pp. 102-108 (6 pages).

Total Pages: Required (36), Suggested (20).

Session 4: February 18, 2025 – Racialized Gender, Racialized Feminisms

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 5

Film: Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele.
Required Readings (34 pages):

  • Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Chapter 1, pp. 1-24 (24 pages).
  • The Most Overlooked And Underrated Characters In ‘Get Out’ Are Black Women by Brittany Willis (2 pages). Read online.
  • Morrison, Toni. “What the Black ôWoman Thinks About Women’s Lib.” New York Times (1971), pp.ķķ1-8. o⁸
  • Farris, Sara R. In the Name of Women’s Rights. Duke University Press, 2017. Introduction (16 pages).
  • Gunn Allen, P. 1992, “The Red Roots of White Feminism,” in The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (Boston: Beacon Press), pp. 209-220 (11 pages).

Total Pages: Required (34), Suggested (27).

Session 5: February 25, 2025 – Trans Theory

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 6
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Namaste, Viviane. “Undoing Theory: The ‘Transgender Question’ and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory.” In Hypatia, 24(3), 2009: pp. 11-22 (12 pages).
  • McKenzie Wark, “Girls Like Us.” Read online (2 pages).
  • Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. U of Minnesota Press, 2017. Chapter 1, pp. 17-38 (21 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” In The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Routledge, 1987, pp. 93-104 (11 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (11).

Session 6: March 4, 2025 – Silent and Revolutionary Dolls

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka – chapt 7-8

Film: Ex Machina (2015) by Alex Garland – HBO Max.
Required Readings (36 pages):

  • Sumi K. Cho, “Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment.” In Wing, Adrien Katherine (ed.), Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. NYU Press, 2003, pp. 1-10 (10 pages).
  • Shimizu, Celine Parreñas. The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. Duke University Press, 2007, Ch. 1, pp. 1-26 (26 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Trevor Richardson, “Objectification and Abjectification in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell.” Read online (4 pages).
  • Da’Shaun, L. Harrison. “Pretty Ugly: The Politics of Desire.” In Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. North Atlantic Books, 2021, pp. 11-32 (21 pages).

Total Pages: Required (36), Suggested (25).

Session 7: March 11, 2025 – Ecofeminism (Midterm Exam)

Film: Children of Men (2006) by Alfonso Cuarón – available on Hulu.
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals.” Soundings 78.78 (2021): 20-37 (17 pages).
  • Mies, M. and Shiva, V. 2014, Ecofeminism (London: ZED Books), Introduction, pp. 1-18 (18 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Morton, T. 2010, “Queer Ecology,” PMLA 125(2), pp. 273-282 (9 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (9).

March 18 Spring Break – No Class

Session 8: March 25, 2025 – Disembodiment and the Office Wife

Film: Her (2014) by Spike Jonze – available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Ashley Bardhan, “Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them,” Futurism.com (2 pages). Read online.
  • Eva Gustavsson, “Virtual Servants: Stereotyping Female Front-Office Employees on the Internet,” Gender, Work & Organization 12(5), 2005: 400–419 (19 pages).
  • Poster, Winifred R. “Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy.” In Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, ed. Ruha Benjamin (Duke University Press, 2019), pp. 133-147 (16 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Benjamin, Ruha. Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Duke University Press, 2019. Introduction, pp. 1-15 (15 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (15).

Session 9: April 1, 2025 – Ho Theory: Controlling Images 

Film: WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion (Music Video).
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Srinivasan, Amia. “Talking to My Students About Porn.” In The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, pp. 33-38 (5 pages).
  • Harrison, Da’Shaun L. “Pretty Ugly: The Politics of Desire.” In Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. North Atlantic Books, 2021, pp. 11-32 (21 pages).
  • Lomax, Tamura. “Black Venus and Jezebel Sluts: Writing Race, Sex, and Gender.” In Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture. Duke University Press, 2018, pp. 13-25 (12 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Srinivasan, Amia. “Talking to My Students About Porn.” In The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, pp. 38-65 (27 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (27).

Session 10: April 8, 2025 – Family Affair: Wife, Daughters, Motherhood

Film: The Zone of Interest (2023) by Jonathan Glazer.
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Hill Collins, Patricia. “Black Women and Motherhood.” In Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Taylor & Francis Group, 1990, pp. 198-205 (7 pages).
  • Rich, Adrienne. “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity.” In Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985, 1986, pp. 100-123 (22 pages).
  • Moslener, Sara. “White Women’s Bodies and the Dilemma of Purity Culture Recovery.” Read online (4 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Hill Collins, Patricia. “Black Women and Motherhood.” In Black Feminist Thought, pp. 187-215 (28 pages).
  • Mattheis, Ashley A. “#TradCulture: Reproducing Whiteness and Neo-Fascism Through Gendered Discourse Online.” In Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness, 2021, pp. 91-101 (9 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (37).

Session 11: April 15, 2025 – Queer Theory

Film: Black Mirror – San Junipero (Season 3, Episode 4).
Required Readings (34 pages):

  • Philyaw, Deesha. “Eula.” In The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Pushkin Press, 2022, pp. 1-11 (11 pages).
  • Rich, Adrienne Cecile. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980).” Journal of Women’s History 15(3), 2003, pp. 18-23 (5 pages).
  • Smith, Andrea. “Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism.” In Queer Indigenous Studies, 2010, pp. 42-52 (10 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Rich, Adrienne Cecile. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980).” Journal of Women’s History, pp. 1-39 (39 pages).

Total Pages: Required (34), Suggested (39).

Session 12: April 22, 2025 – From Marxist Feminist to Girl Bossing

Film: Barbie (2023) by Greta Gerwig.
Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Rich, Adrienne. “What Does a Woman Need to Know.” In Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1985, pp. 1-9 (8 pages).
  • Cecilia Rio, “‘On the Move’: African American Women’s Paid Domestic Labor and the Class Transition to Independent Commodity Production.” In Rethinking Marxism 17, 2005, pp. 489-510 (19 pages).
  • Federici, Silvia. “Women, Reproduction, and the Commons.” In The South Atlantic Quarterly 118(4), October 2019, pp. 711-724 (23 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • مَست قَلَندَر, “Barbie’s White Feminism Problem.” Read online (2 pages).
  • First International Congress of Working Women, Washington, D.C., October 28–November 6, 1919 (4 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (6).

Session 13: April 29, 2025 – The Violence of Women: Monsters, Revenge, and Saviors

Films:

  • Monster (2003) by Patty Jenkins – Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
  • Promising Young Woman (2020) by Emerald Fennell – Amazon Prime, Canal+.
  • Gone Girl (2014) by David Fincher – Disney+ and Canal+.

Required Readings (35 pages):

  • Cardi, Coline, and Geneviève Pruvost. “Thinking Women’s Violence.” In History of the Present 5(2), 2015: 200-216 (14 pages).
  • Jordan, June. “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies.” (1 page).
  • Gentry, Caron E., and Laura Sjoberg. “Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores.” In Thinking About Women’s Violence in Global Politics, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, Introduction, pp. 1-20 (20 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Gross, Kali. Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times, 2024, pp. 1-13 (13 pages).

Total Pages: Required (35), Suggested (13).

Session 14: May 6, 2025 – Future(s)

Film: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) by James Cameron – Disney Plus.
Required Readings (34 pages):

  • James, Joy. “Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and Sci-Fi Family Values.” In Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory, 2015, pp. 185-199 (14 pages).
  • Asenap, Jason. “Avatar: The Way of Water or How Not to Make Indigenous Futurism Movies.” Read online (4 pages).
  • Goeman, Mishuana. “‘Remember What You Are’: Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)Mapping the Settler Nation-State.” In Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations, University of Minnesota Press, 2013, pp. 41–60 (20 pages).

Suggested Readings:

  • Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopias: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, NYU Press, 2009, Introduction, pp. 1-18 (18 pages).

Total Pages: Required (34), Suggested (18).

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LOC 2047 –  CRN 16142
Black to the Future(s): Race in Science/Speculative Fictions
Fania Noel 

Fall 2023

EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
The New School

Course Description

Radical Black feminist futures construct a politics of the imaginary anchored in liberation politics, amongst them, the works of Octavia Butler, which simultaneously constitute speculative fiction and a social justice handbook. The Parable series, in which the heroine evolves in a post-apocalyptic and dystopian United States, incorporates racial, gender, sexual, and class power dynamics. Butler successfully demonstrates how race, gender, sexuality, and class still frame how power and violence are distributed within communities, families, and interpersonal relationships, even in an almost stateless context. Popular and mainstream screenplays fail to showcase post-racial/non-racial contexts by ignoring the racial historical continuum. This course aims to investigate [anti]Blackness, racialization and race in contemporary US screenplays. To do so, we will analyze a vision of the future as the grounds for the untold racial archetypes and stereotypes. Building upon Black feminist and cultural studies theories, we will interrogate the politics of the imaginary in speculative fiction by using Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower. as the guiding thread.

[Week 1: August 28]. Introduction: What Is and Is Not SF?**

  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012. Chapters 1 and 2
  • Suvin, Darko. “On What Is and Is Not an SF Narration; with a List of 101 Victorian Books That Should Be Excluded from SF Bibliographies.” Science Fiction Studies, 1978, 45–57.
  • James, Joy. “Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and Sci-Fi Family Values.” Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2015): 185.
  • Suggested: Roberts, Adam. The history of science fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

[Week 2: August 30 and September 6].  Disembodiment and office wife **

  • Film: Her bySpike Jonze (2014) –  Apple TV and Amazon Prime 
  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 3
  • Ashley Bardhan, Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them, Futurism.com, https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse
  • Winifred R. Poster, “Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy,” in Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, ed. Ruha Benjamin (Duke University Press, 2019)
  • Eva Gustavsson, “Virtual Servants: Stereotyping Female Front-Office Employees on the Internet,” Gender, Work & Organization 12, no. 5 (September 1, 2005): 400–419.
  • Suggested: Benjamin, Ruha.  Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 2019. Introduction p.1-25

Street Vendors Occupy Corona Plaza to Protest NYC Crackdown
Immigrant food vendors are occupying Corona Plaza in Queens in protest of NYC shutting them out of business by AMIR KHAFAGY – Documented – https://documentedny.com/2023/08/07/street-vendors-food-corona-plaza-queens/

[Week 3: September 11 & 13]. Silent and revolutionary dolls

  • Suggested : De Witt Douglas Kilgore, ‘Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, 37.1 (2010), 16–22.

[Week 4: September 18 & 20] – These violent delights have violent ends

  • Film: Hunger Games 1 (2012)  by Francis Lawrence, Gary Ross – Amazon Prime
  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 5 and 6
  • Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of subjection: Terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America. WW Norton & Company, 2022. p.17-48
    • Suggested: Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide:(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Penguin, 2009. p.11-44

[Week 5: September 25 & 27].  Monsters are Ugly; Ugliness is the monster 

  • Film: I am Legend (2007) by Francis Lawrence – HBO Max, Prime and Hulu
  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters  7 and 8 
  • Da’Shaun, L. Harrison. “Pretty Ugly: The Politics of Desire.” Belly of the beast: The politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness. North Atlantic Books, 2021, pp. 11-32
  • Shabazz, Rashad. Spatializing blackness: Architectures of confinement and black masculinity in Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 2015.  Introduction pp 1-10
    • Suggested: Boggs, Grace Lee, and Robin D. G. Kelley. “‘The City Is the Black Man’s Land.’” Living for Change: An Autobiography, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, pp. 117–42. JSTOR, 

[Week 6: October 2 & 4]. The Belly of the World 

Film: Children of Men (2006) by Alfonso Cuarón – Hulu & Amazon Prime

  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 9 and 10 
  •  hooks, bell. “The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators.” Black American Cinema. Routledge, 2012. 288-302
  • Hartman, Saidiya. “The belly of the world: A note on Black women’s labors.” Souls 18.1 (2016): 166-173
  • James, Joy. “The womb of Western theory: Trauma, time theft, and the captive maternal.” Carceral Notebooks 12.1 (2016): 253-296.

[Week 7: October 9 & 11] Robot’s babies, Papa Maybe 

  •  Film: Blade Runner 2042 (2017) by Denis Villeneuve – Amazon prime (loc)
  •  Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 11 and 12 
  •  Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The invention of women: Making an African sense of western gender discourses. U of Minnesota Press, 1997. pp. 1-30 
  • Snorton, C. Riley. Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity. U of Minnesota Press, 2019, Chapter 1: “Anatomically speaking; Ungendered flesh and the science of sex.” in pp 17-53
  • Suggested: Butler, Judith. Gender trouble. Routledge, 2002. introduction

[Week 8: October 16 & 18] The Land and Barbarians fantaisies

  •  Film: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) by George Miller – Amazon prime ( loc)
  •  Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 13 and 14 
  •  Said, Edward. “Introduction,” from Orientalism. ARC, Amsterdam University Press, 2018. introduction 1-28
  •  Farris, Sara R. In the name of women’s rights. Duke University Press, 2017. Introduction
  • Suggested:  Farris, Sara R. In the name of women’s rights. Duke University Press, 2017. Chapter 1 

[Week 9: October 23 & 25] [Anti]Colonial Fantasy

[Week 10: October 30 & November 1] Encoding Love and romance 

  • Tv Show: Black Mirror. San Junipero( S03, ep 4) and 15 Million Merits (S01 Ep 2) – Netflix
  • Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 17 and 18
  • hooks, bell. All About Love, chapter 1 https://wtf.tw/ref/hooks.pdfLinks to an external site.
  •  King, Rosamond S. “This Is You”: “Invisibility,” Community, and Women Who Desire Women” Island bodies: Transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination. University Press of Florida, 2014
  • Suggested: Browne, Simone. “Branding Blackness. Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of Blackness” Dark matters: On the surveillance of blackness. Duke University Press, 2015. pp.89-130

[Week 11: November 6 & 8]White Womanhood Future(s) 1/2 

  •  Series: The Handmaid’s Tale, the first half of season 1 – Hulu
  • hooks, bell. “Ain’t I a woman: Black women and feminism.” (1982). Chapter 1
  • White Women’s Bodies and the Dilemma of Purity Culture Recovery by Sara Moslener- https://therevealer.org/white-womens-bodies-and-the-dilemma-of-purity-culture-recovery/
  • Beckles, Hilary McD. “White women and slavery in the Caribbean.” History Workshop Journal. Vol. 36. No. 1. Oxford University Press, 1993
  • Suggested:  Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. “They were her property.” They Were Her Property. Yale University Press, 2019. Chapter 1 

[Week 12: November 13 & 15] White Womanhood Future(s) 2/2 

[Week 13: November 20 & 22] The kids gonna be alright 

  • Film: The Girl With All the Gifts (2016) by Colm McCarthy – Amazon Prime
  •  Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 20, 21 and 22
  •  hooks, bell. Teaching to transgress. Routledge, 2014. – Chapter 5 “Theory as Liberatory Practice” 59-76
  • hooks, bell. All About Love, chapter 2: Childhood Lessons 

[Week 14: November 27 & 29] The Day after the End of the World

  • Film: Pumzi (2009) by Wanuri Kahiu – Youtube
  •  Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Vol. 1. Open Road Media, 2012 – Chapters 23, 24 and 25
  •  Schalk, Sami. “The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future” Bodyminds reimagined:(Dis) ability, race, and gender in Black women’s speculative fiction. Duke University Press, 2018. Pp.85-112
  • “What a body can do” Elsa Dorlin https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/what-a-body-can-doLinks to an external site.

[Week 15: December 4 & 6] AntiBlackness and the end of the World: Afropessimism

  •  Episode: Black Mirror/Black Museum (Seaosn 4, episode 6) – Netflix
  •  Wilderson III, Frank B. Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing, 2020. Chapter one (pp.1-18)
  • Fanon, Frantz. Black skin, white masks. Grove press, 2008.chapter 1
  • I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies by June Jordan https://poets.org/poem/i-must-become-menace-my-enemies

Suggested : 

  •  Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Chapter 1

[Week 16: December 11 ] Conclusion 

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BLST 33300-M(35032)
Women in the African Diaspora

Instructor: Fania Noel 

`Fall 2022

The City College of New York
Black Studies Program

Course Description

Women in the African Diaspora investigates the political, social, and economic experiences and conditions of Black women in the context of diaspora. This course will use global Black Feminist and Africana theories, methodologies, and scholarship to comprehend migration, the global racial and sexual division of labor, the racialization of gender but also its invention and its normalization/generalization through slavery and [neo]colonialism. This course understands the term “diaspora” both as the historical diaspora – Afro-descendants whose ancestry lies in  enslaved Black African people dispersed through North Africa, Europe, and the Americas; and the geographical diaspora – the groups circulating through forced or chosen migration from Africa all over the world. 

“We cannot, without running the risk of breaking the pan-African momentum, separate Africa from its diasporas: without Africa, the African diasporas have no identity; without the diasporas, Africa would lose sight of both the scale of its past and current contribution to our world and the global scope of its responsibilities” (M’Bokolo 2003; 6).

[Week 1: August 25] Introduction 

  • Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in two acts.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 12.2 (2008): 1-14
  •  Palmer, Colin (2000) The African Diaspora, The Black Scholar, 30:3-4, 56-59

[Week 2: August 30 / September 1st] Gender and its Discontents

  • Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The invention of women: Making an African sense of western gender discourses. U of Minnesota Press, 1997. pp. 1-30,
  • Snorton, C. Riley. Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity. U of Minnesota Press, 2017. Chapter 1: “Anatomically speaking; Ungendered flesh and the science of sex.” in pp 17-53

Suggested:

  • Butler, J. 2011, “Gender is Burning,” in Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Routledge), pp. 81-99

[Week 3: September 6 & 8 ] A Feminist Grammar 

  • Collective, Combahee River. “The Combahee river collective statement.” Home girls: A Black feminist anthology 1 (1983): 264-274
  • Verna, Chantalle F., and Paulette Poujol Oriol. “The Ligue Feminine d’Action Sociale: An Interview with Paulette Poujol Oriol.” Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2011, pp. 246–57. 
  • Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. “Erasures and the practice of diaspora feminism.” Small Axe 9.1 (2005): 129-133.

Suggested 

  • Tamale, Sylvia. Decolonization and Afro-feminism. Daraja Press, 2020. The chapter  “Pan-Africanism in African Feminism” pp 369-377
  • Morrison, Toni. “What the black woman thinks about women’s lib.” New York (1971).

 [Week 4: September 13 & 15] What a Body can do? : slavery, body and flesh

  • Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: An American grammar book.” The Transgender Studies Reader Remix. Routledge, 1987. 93-104
  • Prince, Mary. “The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave.” Black Writers. Routledge, 2020. 345-364.
  • Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth. The embodiment of disobedience: Fat black women’s unruly political bodies. Lexington Books, 2006.

Suggested: 

  • Fuentes, Marisa J. “Agatha: White Women, Slave Owners, and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender.” Dispossessed Lives. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 70-99

[Week 5: Sept. 20 & 22] “Freed from slavery and free of resources”: the Plantation’s Afterlife 

  • Hartman, Saidiya, and F. Wilderson. “The terrible beauty of the slum.” Brick: A Literary Journal 99 (2017): 39-44
  • Hernández Reyes, Castriela Esther. “Black women’s struggles against extractivism, land dispossession, and marginalization in Colombia.” Latin American Perspectives 46.2 (2019): 217-234.
  • Forbes, Curdella. “Between plot and plantation, trespass and transgression: Caribbean migratory disobedience in fiction and internet traffic.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 16.2 (2012): 23-42

Suggested: 

  • Cordis, Shanya. “Forging relational difference: Racial, gendered violence and dispossession in Guyana.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 23.3 (2019): 18-33.

[Week 6/7: Sept. 27 & Oct. 6 ] Don’t Agonize, Organize: Community and Organization 

  • Video: Migrant Workers in Lebanon Are Trapped in a Racist System / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEui9JhMFI
  • Davies, Carole Boyce. “Carnival and Diaspora: Caribbean Community, Happiness, and Activism.” Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Brunson, Takkara K. “A Heroic and Revolutionary Undertaking”: African-Descended Women of the Communist Movement”. Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba. University Press of Florida, 2021

Suggested: 

  • Larcher, Silyane. “The End of Silence: On the Revival of Afrofeminism in Contemporary France.” Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality (1848-2016), Lincoln/Londres, Presses universitaires du Nebraska (2018): 102-126

[Week 8: October 11 & 13] Black Women Black and State Violence 

  • Kia Lilly Caldwell (2020) “#MariellePresente: Black Feminism, Political Power, and Violence in Brazil”, Souls, 22:2-4, 213-238,
  • Maynard, Robyn. “Misogynoir in Canada: Punitive state practices and the devaluation of Black women and gender-oppressed people.” Policing Black lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017

Suggested: 

  • Shakur, Assata.  Assata: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary. Chicago, Illinois: Lawrence Hill (2001). Chapter 1 & 2 

[Week 9: Oct. 18 & 20] The Border: Labor, Migration, and Racial Capitalism 

  • Film: Black Girl by Ousmane Sembène
  • What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism? By Robin D. G. Kelley https://bostonreview.net/articles/robin-d-g-kelley-introduction-race-capitalism-justice/
  • “Black Women and Domestic Work: the Early Years.” Andall, J. (2000). Gender, Migration and Domestic Service: The Politics of Black Women in Italy (1st ed.). Routledge.
  • Mlambo, Victor H., and Sphephelo Zubane. “No rights, No Freedom: The Kafala system and the plight of African migrants in the Middle East.” ADRRI Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 18.1 (6), April, 2021-June (2021): 1-16.

Suggested: 

  • Stephen J. King (2021) Black Arabs and African migrants: between slavery and racism in North Africa, The Journal of North African Studies, 26:1, 8-50
  • Rose Myrlie Joseph. “Tying the Apron.” , Alaso #1 Rezistans, : 20-27

[Week 10: Oct. 25 & 27] Ho Theory: Controlling Images and Black Women’s Agentivity 

  • Lomax, Tamura. “Black Venus and Jezebel sluts: Writing Race, Sex and Gender”  Jezebel unhinged: Loosing the Black female body in religion and culture. Duke University Press, 2018. pp. 13-33
  • King, Rosamond S. “This Is You”: “Invisibility,” Community, and Women Who Desire Women” Island bodies: Transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination. University Press of Florida, 2014

Suggested: 

  • Magunbane, Zine. “Which Bodies Matter?: Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the ‘Hottentot Venus.’” Gender & Society, vol. 15, no. 6, Dec. 2001, pp. 816–834

[Week 11: Nov. 1 & 3] Family Affair: Motherhood and Sisterhood 

  • Movie: Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash (1991 )
  • Hill Collins, Patricia. “Black women and motherhood.” Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics. Routledge, 2000. 450-461
  • dos Santos SB. “Controlling black women’s reproductive health rights: An impetus to black women’s collective organizing in Brazil”. Cultural Dynamics. 2012;24(1):13-30.
  • Bambara, Toni Cade. “On the Issue of Roles”. The black woman: An anthology. New American Library, 1970.

Suggested:

[Week 12: Nov. 8 & 10 ] The Beautiful Side of the Beast: Desire and the politics of Desire 

  • Da’Shaun, L. Harrison. “Pretty Ugly: The Politics of Desire.” Belly of the beast: The politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness. North Atlantic Books, 2021, pp. 11-32
  • Williams, Bianca C. “Breaking (It) Down: Gender, Emotional Entanglements, and the Realities of Romance Tourism.” The Pursuit of Happiness. Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism. Duke University Press, 2018. pp. 123-158
  • Chancy, Myriam J. A. “Subversive Sexualities: Revolutionizing Gendered Identities.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2008, pp. 51–75. JSTOR,
  • Philyaw, Deesha. “Eula” The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Pushkin Press, 2022. pp.1-11

Suggested: 

  • Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Black Femme: Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom“ Wicked flesh: black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp.153-186

 [Week 13: Nov. 15 & 17 ] Crafting Stories, Building Narratives 

  • Film: Sambizanga by Sarah Maldoror 
  • Oloukoi, Chrystel. “A Chorus for the Revolution: On Sarah Maldoror’s Radiant Call of Resistance.”Metrograph,  https://metrograph.com/a-chorus-for-the-revolution/
  • hooks, bell. “The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators.” Black American Cinema. Routledge, 2012. 288-302

Suggested :

  • Steele, Catherine Knight. “Black bloggers and their varied publics: The everyday politics of black discourse online.” Television & New Media 19.2 (2018): 112-127
  • Wynter, Sylvia. “Novel and history, plot and plantation.” Savacou 5.1 (1971): 95-102.

[Week 14: November 22 ] Crossing the Border: Internationalism and Solidarity

  • Florvil, Tiffany N. “Transnational feminist solidarity, Black German women and the politics of belonging.” Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora. Routledge, 2017. 87-110.
  • Williams, Elizabeth. “The West Indian and African Roots of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain.” The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
  • Wyddiane Prophète. “Suzanne Comhair-Sylvain, a woman, an extraordinary avant-gardiste scientist”. Alaso #2  Frontyè, : 62-69

Suggested : 

  • Sudbury, Julia. “Rethinking global justice: Black women resist the transnational prison-industrial complex.” Souls 10.4 (2008): 344-360.

[Week 15: Nov. 29 & Dec 1st] AntiBlackness and the end of the World: Afropessimism

  • Episode: Black Mirror S04e6: Black Museum – Netflix 
  • Wilderson III, Frank B. Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing, 2020. pp.1-18
  • Browne, Simone. “Branding Blackness. Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of Blaéckness” Dark matters: On the surveillance of blackness. Duke University Press, 2015. pp.89-130

Suggested: 

  • Fanon, Frantz. Black skin, white masks. Grove press, 2008.chapter 1 

 [Week 16: Dec. 6 & 8]  The Day after Tomorrow: Futures 

Suggested: 

Wynter, Sylvia. “The ceremony must be found: After humanism.” Boundary 2 (1984): 19-70

 [Week 17: December 13 ] Conclusion

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Les remarques sur Assa Traoré insinuent qu’avoir le visage défroissé, être propre sur soi, et une coiffure arrangée disqualifient les femmes Noires pour être considérée comme des “vraies” militantes ou capables de produire une pensée politique. Dans la deuxième partie il sera question de la nouvelles fausses bonne idée du gouvernement levée du secret médical dans les cas de violences conjugales.

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Camp d’été décolonial : qui a peur de la non-mixité et de l’antiracisme politique ?

Adeleke, Tunde. “Guerilla Intellectualism: Walter A. Rodney and the Weapon of Knowledge in the Struggle for Black Liberation.” Journal of Thought, vol. 35, no. 1, 2000, pp. 37–59.

Lecture : extrait de “Que Faire?” Lénine
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On est confiné, mais certainement pas la police qui on l’a vu fait ce pour quoi elle existe surveiller, punir, et violenté les population vues comme dangereuses. La police notre sujet du jour avec cette question les féministes détestent-t-elle la police ? Et dans la deuxième partie, je reviens sur ce que signifie le militantisme.

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Extrait du ” Autodéterminiation et autonomie” Circé Deslisle – AssiégéEs #2
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Juillet 2018 : Victoire de l’équipe de France à la Coupe du monde de Football. De jeunes garçons noirs quittent la périphérie pour rejoindre le centre, drapeau tricolore à la main. Ils s’engouffrent dans le RER, direction Paris. Leurs visages rivés sur les écrans géants, à l’extérieur du bar, l’exultation avec la foule et toujours ce drapeau tricolore brandi, enlacé et agité. Une scène qui renvoie à l’affiche du film, ces mêmes drapeaux portés par une foule qu’on devine multiethnique, déferlant sur les Champs Élysées, surplombée par ce titre : Les Misérables. Tourné à Montfermeil, le film se place sans équivoque dans la lignée de la figure tutélaire de Victor Hugo, grand témoin de son époque et narrateur des marges. Avec cette scène qui inaugure Les Misérables, le film n’évoque pas simplement le symbole de la francité en explorant la dualité entre celles et ceux supposés de souche et les autres. Ces trois premières minutes cristallisent fantasmes, espoirs et projections autour de la question raciale en France.

Les Misérables — qui a fait sensation en remportant un prix à Cannes et quatre Césars, dont celui du meilleur film — a été salué à gauche comme à droite.

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Extract  “Having spent a significant amount of time in the United States, is there a difference between blackness in Paris and blackness in, say, Brooklyn?
Blackness in Paris is definitely more African or Caribbean as a result of the direct proximity to the Continent and the Caribbean.  At the same time, blackness in Brooklyn is more political, self-aware and organized. Also, I am haitian so Brooklyn is kind of a freeing place for Haitians. In Paris, I don’t have a lot of Haitians. ”