An interdisciplinary examination of Black slavery as both a historical event and an enduring condition. The course highlights the foundational role of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade in the making of European modernity, the white subject of rights and the black dispossessed nonbeing, liberal democracy, and contemporary regimes of black captivities. Special focus is given to the political and economic history of the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil as slavocracies and to the incomplete project of emancipation that renders Black citizenship at best elusive. Critical transnational perspective highlights the spatio-temporal continuum between plantation regimes and contemporary global racial apartheid.
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Grading1
PasstimeUpper division only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeVery good lectures and content. Relatively easy structure to the class, good feedback, good professor overall. don't think he's teaching anymore after this year, but would feel wrong to not mention how great he is!
McAuley is the best!! Love his classes you will learn plenty and the workload isn't too heavy. Super interesting lectures, 3 papers based on 3 books make up your grade.
Excellent class, excellent professor. Lectures were complex but McAuley was more than willing to take questions. I loved the readings and really felt like I came away with a better understanding of Marxism in the context of the US civil rights struggles. Midterm and final essays were very open-ended which isn't for everyone, but I appreciated.
Very chill and nice. You learn real things. I did better than I thought I would because I didn't attend all the lectures or read all of the books. Would definitely take again.
lectures had no direction or point, papers had no clear guidelines. could not tell you what i was supposed to learn and what i did learn was nothing
do not take this class. just save yourself. he does not explain anything