PHIL 29921. W. E. B. DU BOIS AND SYLVIA WYNTER This course will focus on the philosophical thought of two audacious and expansive Afrodescended philosophers: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963) and Sylvia Wynter (1928- ). This course will critically engage: (i) conceptions of racial heirarchy and white supremacy, (ii) the psychological, corporeal, and economic effects of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade, and (iii) creative methods of addressing a world shaped by a techno-industrial order that degrades and exploits the darker folks (on the other side of the color line). We will spend time working through Du Bois "Dusk of Dawn" and "Color of Democracy," as well as Wynters "Beyond Mirandas Meanings" and "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom." This will entail the careful reading, interpretation, and discussion of difficult texts as well as the exposition, critique, and construction of arguments. [AH, PPRE, SJ]
- Enseignant: Lee McBride