Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Requirements
Each student will be required to:
1. Attend all the weekly seminars
2. Do the reading for each seminar in advance of the seminar and contribute to the
discussions in the seminar
3. Write a thousand word response to the text prescribed for each seminar
4. Write and present a two thousand word response to one of the prescribed texts
5. Read at least two of the recommended texts
6. Write a seven to eight thousand word journal article to be handed in on the last day of
the second term
There is no exam for this course.
Preparatory Reading
There is no obligation to do any reading prior to the start of the course. However students
wishing to begin to begin to familiarise themselves with Fanons life and work during the
holidays will find these books useful:
Students wishing to familiarise themselves with the black radical tradition will find these
books useful:
Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the
Politics of Empowerment (1990)
Cedric Robinson Black Marxism: The making of the black radical tradition (1983)
Seminar Programme
Term 1 five teaching weeks
Compulsory Reading
Recommended Reading
Students are expected to be able to show a working knowledge of at least two of the
recommended texts.
Pilar Aguilera Chile: The Other September 11: Reflections and Commentaries on the
1973 Coup in Chile (2006)
Donald L. Barnett & Karari Njama Mau Mau From Within (1968)
Crystal Bartolovich & Neil Lazarus (Eds.) Marxism, Modernity & Postcolonial Studies
(2004)
Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression (1985)
Charles Cobb This Nonviolent Stuffll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights
Movement Possible (2015)
Grant Farred (ed.) Imperative of the Now, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly
on Fanon (2012)
James Ferguson Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (2006)
Jane Ann Gordon Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon
(2014)
Lewis Gordon & Jane Anna Gordon Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age
(2010)
Lewis Gordon (ed. with T. Denean SharpleyWhiting and Rene T. White) Fanon: A
Critical Reader (1996)
(1997)
Ernesto Che Guevara The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in
the Congo (2011)
G.W.F. Hegel 'The Master Slave Dialectic' from The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
George Jackson Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
Peniel E. Joseph Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in
America (2007)
R.D.G. Kelly Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994)
Peter Linebaugh & Markus Rediker The Many Headed Hydra (2001)
Dominico Losurdo War & Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century (2015)
Tanya Lyons Guns and Guerrilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation
Struggle (2004)
Walter Mignolo The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial
Options (2011)
Walter Mignolo The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial
Options (2011)
Alvaro Reyes (Ed.) Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, Autonomy &
Emancipation in Latin America (2012)
Kristin Ross Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French
Culture (1995)
James Yaki Sales Meditations on Frantz Fanons Wretched of the Earth (2010)
Todd Shepard The Invention of Decolonisation: The Algerian War & the Remaking of
France (2008)
Akinyele Omowale Umoja We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi
Freedom Movement (2013)
Gary Wilder Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonisation and the Future of the World
(2015)