Frantz Fanon was extraordinarily prolific during his short life. He was the twentieth century's foremost theorist of blackness and anti-colonial liberation, but also a practicing research psychiatrist and a revolutionary. Today, Fanon is an essential reference for research and teaching in topics of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. This course explores Fanon's multiple and long-lasting legacies all while taking him on his own terms. Course discussions will focus on texts by Fanon, with special emphasis on Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, and will also reflect learnings from texts and films about Fanon in addition to films about the Algerian War. We will maintain a race and ethnicity lens throughout the course, and gender and sexuality lens even when Fanon does not explicitly write about gendered or psychosexual others. Taught in English.
4-5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
Frantz Fanon was extraordinarily prolific during his short life. He was the twentieth century's foremost theorist of blackness and anti-colonial liberation, but also a practicing research psychiatrist and a revolutionary. Today, Fanon is an essential reference for research and teaching in topics of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. This course explores Fanon's multiple and long-lasting legacies all while taking him on his own terms. Course discussions will focus on texts by Fanon, with special emphasis on Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, and will also reflect learnings from texts and films about Fanon in addition to films about the Algerian War. We will maintain a race and ethnicity lens throughout the course, and gender and sexuality lens even when Fanon does not explicitly write about gendered or psychosexual others. Taught in English.