Summer 2021 – POLT 14400 Global Political Thought
ICC Themes and Perspectives: Power and Justice; Identities; Social Sciences
MWF 9am-11am
Summer Session 1: June 2 – July 2, 2021
(3 credits)
Through a close reading of graphic memoirs and more traditional political theory texts, in this course we explore the following topics:
- exile, displacement, and the fracturing of human identity
- the political suppression and mobilization of individual and collective memory
- the material and psychological effects of colonial occupation and dispossession
- the relationship between the personal and the political and how they intersect
- historical struggles for liberation and human dignity
Texts may include:
Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of American Empire
WEB DuBois, Darkwater
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Films may include
Quo Vadis, Aida (2020)
Of Fathers and Sons (2017)