African-American, Courses, Teaching Angela Davis with her lawyer Leo Branton, Jr. 07 Sep 2020 Seminar on Angela Davis I'm posting HERE a copy of my syllabus for a course on Angela Davis' work. The course follows a largely… John Drabinski
African-American, Music Film Culture, Teaching No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5884871ae) Spike Lee Do The Right Thing - 1989 Director: Spike Lee Universal USA On/Off Set Drama 29 Apr 2020 Pedagogies of/in Isolation I’m sure people who teach film exclusively or near-exclusively have layered techniques for guiding discussion and orienting people properly toward… John Drabinski
African-American 05 Apr 2020 (Essay Draft) Richard Wright and His Anxious Influence Here is a draft of my essay entitled "Richard Wright and His Anxious Influence: On Ellison and Baldwin," a reflection… John Drabinski
African-American, Teaching 27 Feb 2020 Syllabus for Spike Lee’s Joints Here is the syllabus for my spring 2020 course Spike Lee's Joints. The course studies select Lee films in a… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Teaching 26 Feb 2020 Syllabus for Incarcerating Blackness Here is the syllabus for my course Incarcerating Blackness, which treats some of the key texts on racialized mass incarceration… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Caribbean, Courses 30 Aug 2019 Black Existentialism – revised syllabus Here is my revised syllabus for a course I've taught a bunch of times: Black Existentialism. This revision includes more… John Drabinski 1 Comment
African-American, Courses 30 Aug 2019 Seminar on Angela Davis Here is the syllabus for my F/19 course on Angela Davis. The centerpiece of the course in Davis' Blues Legacies… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American 29 Apr 2019 Vernacular Culture and Belonging Neil Roberts hosted a fantastic symposium on April 13th, putting together an eclectic group of political theory oriented folks to… John Drabinski No Comments
African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Middle Passage, Postcolonial 28 Apr 2019 ReBIT19 – Pessimism as Interpretative Frame The second annual symposium under the rubric Re-Thinking the Black Intellectual Tradition was held on March 30th, 2019. We gathered… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Caribbean 28 Apr 2019 The Poetics of Beautiful Blackness Broadly: How can the abjection of blackness under regimes of anti-blackness be (or has it already been) reversed, disrupted, disputed,… John Drabinski No Comments
