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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

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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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“Spaces of agency exist for black people, wherein we can both interrogate the gaze of the Other but also look back, and at one another naming what we see. The ‘gaze’ has been and is a site of resistance for colonized black people globally. Subordinates in relation of power learn experientially that there is a critical gaze, one that ‘looks’ to document, one that is oppositional. In resistance struggle, the power of the dominated to assert agency by claiming and cultivating ‘awareness’ politicizes ‘looking’ relations-one learns to look a certain way in order to resist.” bell hooks


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Dark Matters. On the Surveillance of Blackness

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Silencing The Post. Power And The Production of History

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Ce mois-ci au programme deux concepts, inclusion prédatrice et citoyenneté/propriété sont tirés d’un livre paru 2019 aux éditions The University of North Carolina Press. Un livre qui traite des stratégies déployées par les secteurs bancaire et immobilier- soutenu par l’Etat- pour discriminer les personnes Noir-es.

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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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Bon retour de vacances, ou bonnes dernières semaines pour les aoûtiens. Comme on arrive à la fin de la saison des injonctions au “summer body”, ce mois-ci au programme deux concepts tirés du livre de Da’Shaun L. Harrison, paru 2021 aux éditions North Atlantic Books, qui fait le lien entre la négrophobie et la grossophobie:

Da’Shaun L. Harrison
Belly of the Beast. The Politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blackness

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