Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity: Race, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (HA)

Subject associations
AAS 303 / HIS 300 / LAS 363
Term
Spring 2022
Instructors
Navid Farnia
Registrar description

'Revolution knows no compromise,' Malcolm X said in a 1963 speech. 'You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed.' This course investigates the concepts of revolution and counterrevolution by centering the race question. We will explore the strategies that liberation movements used to achieve revolution and conversely, how imperial states aimed to subvert these movements through counterrevolutionary warfare. Our class will highlight Black, Indigenous, and Third World liberation struggles, and we will look at cases in Haiti, the U.S., Russia, Algeria, Cuba, and Iran.

AAS Subfield
GRE
RPP