Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
Offered By: Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare
Course Description
Overview
Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. This course connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns.
Syllabus
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 1: Introduction
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 2: Immigration
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 3: Enlightenment, Neoliberalism and Racism
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 4: Polarized Politics
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 5: Neoliberalism to Populism
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 6: Populism & Big Data, Facebook's Dark Posts
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 7: Human Rights and Voting Rights
- Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 8: What Can We Do?
- Lecture 26, Part 1: Student Presentation "Language, Resistance and Liberation"
- Lecture 26, Part 2: Student Perspectives on the Course
Taught by
Prof. Michel DeGraff
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