Taught By:
Mariam Konaté
Professor
Institute of Intercultural and Anthropological Studies
Western Michigan University
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Course Description:
This course examines several of the historical as well as the contemporary, socio-economic, and political problems that culminated into the #Black Lives Matter movement. We will critically examine scholarly and popular writings that focus on race, racism, structural inequality, and criminalization in American society; violent policing and mass incarceration, as well as the conditions that lead to mass mobilization and upheavals. We will also discuss historical Black liberation and social justice movements that have always existed to counter different forms of state sponsored violence against Black people in this country.
