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
African-American 09 Apr 2018 ReBIT18 – The Question of Medium Texts, conversation, and friendship … I value these three things more than anything else. Whether books or gestures or habits… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American 24 Mar 2018 Draylen Mason, photographed The last couple of days have had a bunch of photos of Draylen Mason circulating, the kid who was killed… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Uncategorized 30 Dec 2017 A Thought on Erica Garner’s Passing From 30 December 2017 A small thought on Erica Garner. I was thinking today about the long, searching conversations I… John Drabinski No Comments
African-American, Music Film Culture, U.S. Politics 20 Feb 2017 Five Thoughts on I Am Not Your Negro A first handful of thoughts on John Drabinski No Comments