Utilizing various mediums of Black aesthetics from enslavement to the Black Lives Matter movement, slave narratives, Ida B. Wells Red Record, neo-slave narratives and contemporary accounts of mistreatment of Black people at the hands of the police. This course will engage Black rage: moral, ethical and theological. Furthermore, this course will interrogate passive and active Black social resistance, white male
domestic terrorism in contrast to black on black crime and the yoke of the birthing paradigm on the Black woman. Through these conversations the student will develop models of resistance and agency with the ultimate goal of establishing a theoethic of #BlackLivesMatter.
PRE-ASSIGNMENT REQUIRED.
Students MUST contact the instructor for approval prior to registering for this course.
Evaluation Method: Term paper, daily assignments, presentation, pre-assignment and class participation.
Intended Audience: Mdiv, MASC, DMin
