LF: Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Week 1: Primary:
⬩Fanon : “Concerning Violence” 
Optional:
⬩Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism 
⬩Tuck and Yang: Decolonization is not a Metaphor

Week 2:
Primary:
⬩Gilles Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
Optional:
⬩Gord Hill, The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book
⬩Ken Loach, The Wind that Shakes the Barley 

Week 3:
Primary:
⬩Indigenous Action Media, “Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations of Indigenous Peoples Day”
⬩Warrior Publications, “Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century”   Optional:
⬩Huey Newton, Introduction and “A Manifesto,” Revolutionary Suicide
⬩Glen Coulthard, Introduction and “Lessons from Idle No More: The Future of Indigenous Activism,” Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Week 4:
Primary:
⬩Amilcar Cabral, “The Weapon of Theory”
⬩Bhagat Singh, “To Young Political Workers” and “On the Slogan of “Long Live Revolution”
⬩Raúl Zibechi, “Zapatismo Has Had an Impact on Latin American Processes of Autonomy”
Optional:
⬩Alpa Shah, “When Decolonization is Hijacked”
⬩Azadeh and Heba A, “The Imperative to Condemn and the Politics of Appeal: from Palestine to Kashmir”
⬩Ole Birk Laursen, “Anti-imperialism”

Week 5:
Primary:
⬩Indigenous Action Media, “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex”
⬩Anonymous, “Bring the War Home”
Optional:
⬩Mila Turajlic, Cine-guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
⬩Steven Salaita, Introduction, Internationalism (Salaita, 2016)
⬩Black Rose Anarchist Federation, “Deep Organizing Against Genocide: Palestine and Rooted Social Movements”

Week 6:
Primary:
⬩Maia Ramnath, Introduction and “The Highest Form of Anarchism,” Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle
Optional:
⬩Alexander Dunlap, “Compost the Colony: Exploring Anarchist Decolonization”
⬩Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, “Anarchism and the Black Revolution”

 

***PAST COURSES***

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race and globalization (2/22 and 3/8)

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