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Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies

Prof. Michel DeGraff · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

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.

Lectures

Class Videos

  1. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 1: Introduction 4 min · Video
  2. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 2: Immigration 12 min · Video
  3. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 3: Enlightenment, Neoliberalism and Racism 16 min · Video
  4. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 4: Polarized Politics 13 min · Video
  5. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 5: Neoliberalism to Populism 6 min · Video
  6. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 6: Populism & Big Data, Facebook's Dark Posts 13 min · Video
  7. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 7: Human Rights and Voting Rights 12 min · Video
  8. Lecture 25: Neoliberalism and the End of History - Part 8: What Can We Do? 9 min · Video
  9. Lecture 26, Part 1: Student Presentation "Language, Resistance and Liberation" 36 min · Video
  10. Lecture 26, Part 2: Student Perspectives on the Course 40 min · Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Linguistics and Philosophy; Women's and Gender Studies; History; Literature; Comparative Media Studies/Writing;…
Teacher
Prof. Michel DeGraff
Term
Spring 2017
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, History, Philosophy, Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Michel DeGraff. Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies. Spring 2017. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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