HIST7545 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
In 2022, the president of the American Historical Association set off a firestorm of controversy by questioning presentist politicizations of history. Indeed, from the 1619 Project to the Trump Administrations 1776 Report, today the political stakes of historical interpretation are front and center. Notwithstanding popular confusion about critical race theory, this course will examine how decolonizing history leads to questions of democracy, and how both rely on theory -- critical ways of seeing and thinking through relationships among the past, present, and future. Authors include bell hooks, Leela Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Angela Y. Davis, and Jacques Rancire.
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Summer 2023
1 section