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African/Black social movements have played a critical role in Black liberation and fighting back against slavery, colonialism, anti-Black racism, neocolonialism, racial segregation and apartheid, global imperialism, and racial capitalism across the world. This interdisciplinary graduate seminar takes a historical perspective on Black resistance, starting from slave revolts and ending in current movements for Black freedom. Black social movements have demonstrated innovativeness in pedagogical practices in both formal and informal education settings. Critically examining Black resistance fosters a deeper understanding of Black existence in historical and contemporary society and the struggle for social justice more broadly. We will analyze how social movements have succeeded in impacting discourse across the African Diaspora, transformed social and educational policy and reinvented the ways we teach and research for Black lives.
This seminar explores the educational dimensions of resistance, decolonization and freedom movements throughout Africa and the Black diaspora, focusing on movements and including #BlackLivesMatter, #RhodesMustFall and #EndSARS. The course will explore social movement theory, decolonization theory, Critical Race Theory, the Black Radical tradition, Pan-Africanism, and Black Internationalism to relate social movement learning to pedagogical practices in formal and non-formal education settings. We will examine Black theorists who have guided Black social movements including Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, WEB DuBois, Angela Davis, and CLR James and Mariam Kaba. This course will be of interest to students who are interested in transforming society including teachers, popular educators, community educators and administrators vested in social justice, as well as students interested in social movement learning, African/Black studies, critical education policy, political science, history and sociology.
