BLKS 135: Incarcerated Black Radicalisms

2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; activity, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour

Catalog page 180

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor

Description: Engages the political and cultural work of incarcerated Black radical and proto-radical intellectuals in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Examines how this Black intellectual lineage catalyzes reevaluations, destructions, counter- occupations, abolitions, and transformations of the U.S. nation-state including its durable regimes of (antiblack) domestic and global war.