“The Negro problem in America,” argued W. E. B. Du Bois in 1906, “is but a local phase of a world problem.” If, from this point of view, racial oppression can be said to be the by-product of global structures of domination, then the struggle against it must equally have global dimensions. As new work on “colored cosmopolitanisms” and “internationalisms” has shown, enacting global solidarities among the “dark peoples of the world,” among the colonized and the oppressed, remains until today one of the key features of African American political thought. This course offers an introduction to this neglected political tradition. It will analyze the ways in which African Americans have conceived of, and sought to actualize, transnational solidarities with Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
This course will be taught by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (souzadossantos@potsdam-de).
- Kursleiter*in: Prof. Dr. Marcia Schenck