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
African-American, U.S. Politics 02 Oct 2016 On the National Museum of African American History and Culture It was a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, but my family and I managed to get… John Drabinski No Comments