Research paper:
This learning activity will indicate your ability to critique and apply theoretical knowledge to the topics covered in the course.
Pick a topic of your choice and ensure it is connected to topics in the course syllabus and use course concepts/readings and apply them to analyzing your topic/research question. Alternatively, you can also choose a thematic of one of the weeks in the course syllabus and develop a research paper around that topic.
Your paper should not only demonstrate adequate knowledge of key concepts and theories that have been discussed in the class, your paper should also demonstrate good writing and research skills.
Paper formatting and citation
Please use APA format for citation and include a works cited/bibliography to your final paper.
Please ensure that each paper has your full name, student number, email address on the covering page.
The length of the paper should be 6-8 pages (Max 8pgs), double-spaced and typed. Papers must be submitted online via the Quercus system.
**A grading rubric will be provided on how the paper will be assessed. More details will also be provided in the introductory session of the zoom lecture recording. Grading rubric is attached
Course Readings:
Week 2: Resistance Literature and Culture
Required Readings
Kanafani, G. (1968/2009). Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Translated by Hijjawi, S. Ministry of Culture, Bagdad, Iraq. (Poetry)
Harlow, B. (1987). Introduction: The Theoretical-Historical Context.Resistance Literature. New York: Methuen Press.
Frantz Fanon. Read Chapter 4: “On National Culture” from the Wretched of the Earth.
Highly recommended reading
· Prashad, V. (2016). The Essentials of Socialist Writing an Interview with Vijay Prashad. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/socialist-writing-publishing- books-reading/
Week 3: Bandung, and Afro-Asian Conferences and Third World Liberation and Decolonization
Required Readings
The Bandung Era, Non-alignment and the third way literary imagination (Chris Lee and Anne Garland Mahler)
Rossen Djagalov. Read Chapter “The Afro-Asian Writers Association and its Literary Field” (pg. 65-111) in From Internationalism to Post-Colonialism.
Anne Garland Mahler. Read Chapter Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental.
Suggested https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25386
Week 4: The Black Radical Tradition, Third World Liberation & Culture
Required Readings
Robin DG Kelley. Roaring from the East. Third World Dreaming. P. 60-110. Freedom Dreams. Beacon Press.
Olivier Hadouchi. African Culture will be revolutionary or will be not. William Kleins Film of the First Pan- African Festival of Algiers (1969). Third Text, 25(1), 117-128.
Ahmed Bedjaoui. (2018). Once upon a time there was a PANAF: Liberation Movements and Cultural Representations of African Dreams. Journal of Contemporary African Art, 42-43, p. 170-183.
Elaine Mokhtefi. Read Chapter 4. Meeting the Black Panthers. P.77-111. In Algiers, Third World Capital. Verso Books.
Choose to look at 1 the following cultural texts:
Aja MonetJune Jordan PoetryStricking Photography from Freedie Gray Protests in Baltimore. [Photography] http://fusion.net/story/126291/these-are-the-most-striking-pictures-of-the-freddie-gray-protests-in- baltimore/
Morrison, T. (1987). Beloved. [Novel] Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. [On Course Reserve at Robarts] Wright, R. (1938). Uncle Tom. [Short Story] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Children
Street Art in Ferguson. [Images]http://mic.com/articles/104908/ferguson-now-has-the-most-powerful-street- art-in-america
10 Artists of the Black Lives Matter Movement. [Music] http://sojo.net/magazine/2015/04/10-artists-black-lives- matter-movement
O.PTIONAL READINGS
Kelley, R. (2015). “Beyond Black Lives Matter” Kalfou(2)2, pg. 330-337 (Canvas).
Kelley, R. (1999). The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism. Monthly Review,51(6).http://monthlyreview.org/1999/11/01/a- poetics-of-anticolonialism/
Week 5: Black Power, Black Arts Movement & Movement for Black Lives
Required Reading:
*Film: The Black Power Mixed Tape. Watch documentary.
Amiri Baraka. (2011). The Black Arts Movement: Its Meaning and Potential. Journal of Contemporary African Art, 29, p. 22031.
Watkins, R. (2012). Reading Resistance: The Guerilla in Literature. Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities. p.114-143. University Press of Mississippi.
Audre Lorde. Poetry is not a Luxury. (Short).
Choose 1 reading from 5 or 6
Kay Brown. (2011). The Emergence of Black Women Artists: The Founding of Where we At. Journal of Contemporary African Art, 29, p.118-127.
OR
McIttrick, K. (2006). Introduction: Geographic Stories. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
http://sojo.net/magazine/2015/04/10-artists-black-lives-matter-movement
Choose a cultural artifact to look:
·June Jordan Poetry
·Morrison, T. (1987). Beloved. [Novel] Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. [On Course Reserve at Robarts]
Maya Angelou Poetry
Wright, R. (1938). Uncle Tom. [Short Story] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Children
Sticking Photography from Freedie Gray Protests in Baltimore. [Photography] http://fusion.net/story/126291/these-are-the-most-striking-pictures-of-the-freddie-gray-protests- in-baltimore/
Street Art in Ferguson. [Images]
http://mic.com/articles/104908/ferguson-now-has-the-most-powerful-street-art-in-america
10 Artists of the Black Lives Matter Movement. [Music]
Week 6: Red Power and Indigenous Struggles for
Self-Determination
Required Readings
Watch online: Kent Monkman Casualties of Modernity https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=sDFAKcptgZA&t=2621s
Coulthard, Glen (Yellowknives Dene). 2014. “#IdleNoMore in Historical Context” in The Winter we Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement, 32-37. The Kino-nda-niimi Collective.
Simpson, L. (2012). Chapter 1: Annishisnabek Resistance: Stories from within. Dancing on the Turtles Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Canadas-Disappeared-Indigenous-Women- 20150524-0022.html
Look at 1 or 2 cultural artifacts from the following:
Walking with our Sisters Art Installation (about the lives of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women) – Website Visit and Analysis. http://walkingwithoursisters.ca
We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement. Photographs by Dick Bancroft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNq7Tu7gUrA
Idle No More, Protest Music. http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2013/1/IdleNoMore-a-look-at-Aboriginal-protest-music Maracle, L. (2003). I am Woman. I am Woman: A Native perspective on sociology and feminism. p. 14-20.
Hip Hop and Decolonization Blog Series – [pick one of the short blog pieces] http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/announcement/view/487
Leanne Simpson (2014). As a Canadian, Ferguson Reminds me that #IndigenousLives Matter http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/leanne-simpson/black-lives-matter_b_6240810.html[Short online reflection piece]
Week 7: Palestinian Resistance Culture
Required Readings
Required Reading:
Watch Documentary: PLO: History of a Revolution. [Watch all six parts of the documentary]
Chandni Desai and Rula Shahwan. (Forthcoming). Preserving Palestine: Archival Violence, Erased Curriculum and Challenges of Counter Archiving and Repatriation.
Maha Nassar. (2017). Read Introduction Chapter. p.1-15 in Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World. Standford University Press.
4a. Chandni Desai. (2015). Shooting Back in the Occupied Territories: An Anti-Colonial Participatory Politics. Curriculum Inquiry.
OR
4b.Chandni Desai. (2018). Read Chapter 14: Besieging the Cultural Siege: Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance. In Eds, Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha, An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba. Zed Books
Optional cultural artifacts to look at that interests you:
Early Classic of Palestinian resistance cinema reemerges. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah- irving/early-classic-palestinian-resistance-cinema-reemerges(Watch documentry)
Darwish, M. Silence for the Sake of Gaza. (Poetry). http://arablit.org/2012/11/15/silence-for-the-sake-of-gaza-mahmoud-darwish/
Hudson, A. (2015). How subjugated bodies are Connecting the Struggle Against Collaborating States. http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23374(Short Article)
The hip hop debates between scholars and rappers.
Part 1 – Abu Lughod, L. & Mikdashi, M. ( ). Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/8367/dam_crime-honor-and-hip-hop
Part 2 – DAM Responds: On Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine.http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/9181/dam-responds_on-tradition-and-the-anti- politics-of
Optional Recommended Reading.
· Peteet, J. (1996). The Writing on the Walls: The Graffiti of the Intifada. Cultural Anthropology. 11 (2), p. 139-159.
Week 8: Memorializing Violence in the Middle East(Focus on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the Arab revolutions)
Required Readings
1. Watch Interview with Iraqi poet/writer Sinan Antoon with Tariq Ali,
2. Ronak Kapadia. (2019). Read Chapter 2 – “On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain”. In Insurgent Aesthetics Security and Queer Life of the Forever War. Duke University Press. p.76-103.
3. Manal Hamzeh. Read Introduction Chapter in Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution. Zed Books
Zangana, H. (2011). Read: Chapter III Life under occupation. City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. Seven Stories Press.
Short Reviews
Hanieh, A. (2013). Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East. [Book Review/Interview]. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15838/new-texts-out- now_adam-hanieh-lineages-of-revolt_i
5a. Sinan Antoon: An Iraqi Novelist Living in Continuous Mourning https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/03/sinan-antoon-iraq-ave-maria-isis
5b. Watch Interview with Iraqi poet/writer Sinan Antoon with Tariq Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nobKOWXlihk
Look at 1 of the following cultural artifacts:
Karl, D.S. & Hamdy, B. (2014). Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian. http://wallsoffreedom.com/
Remembering Ali Mustafa: A People’s Journalist 1984- 2014. View Ali’s Photo’s on http://rememberingalimustafa.org/alis-photography/
Lulian. (2012). “Graffiti & the Arab Spring: An Explosive Combination” Neat Designs, http://neatdesigns.net/graffiti-the-arab-spring-an-explosive-combination/
Zangana, H. (2009). Prologue and Bagdad. Dreaming Bagdad. New York: Feminist Press. [Book on course reserve].
Winkour, J. & Kashi, E. (2014). Syria’s lost generation. [Short Documentary]. http://www.dalaala.com/translations/#/syrias-lost-generation/
The art of Syrian refugees: Is Anyone Listening? http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/01/388516164/the-art-of-syrian-refugees-sends-a- message-is-anyone-listening
Week 9:
Revolution, Memory and Culture in the Global South
Required Readings
Listen: Liberation Pedagogy Podcast (on revolution and Iran). Episode 10. Shahrzad Mojab . (about Iran and exile) https://www.liberationpedagogyproject.com/podcast/episode/24c70a41/episode-10-the- pedagogy-of-revolution-unsettling-history
DeShazer, M. (1994). We Make Freedom: Historicizing Contemporary Women’s Resistance Poetry (Chapter 1). A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa and the United States. Michigan: University of Michigan Press
Taylor, D. (2003). Acts of Transfer. The archive and the repertoire: performing cultural memory in the Americas(Chapter 1). Duke University Press.
Resistance poetry in Kashmir. http://www.kashmirlit.org/resistance-poetry-kashmir/
Choose 1 of the following:
Interview with prominent writers – Arundathi Roy and Eduardo Galeno http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/4/14/eduardo_galeano_arundhati_roy_in_conversation
Protest songs from across Indian that Stand for Justice –
https://livewire.thewire.in/out-and-about/music/music-as-a-form-of-protest-11-songs-from-across-india-that-stand- for-justice/
Friday Kahlo’s art – https://www.frida-kahlo-foundation.org
Subcomdante Marcos Speech “Our Word is Our Weapon”. Why we use the word of resistance. P. 166-173
Wamwere K. (2002). Chapter XI: Theater of the Absurd. In I Refuse to Die: My Journey for Freedom. New York: Seven Stories Press. (Focus on Kenya).
McCaughan, E. (2012). Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan. p. 135-152. Duke University Press.
Chilean Musician Ana Tijoux on Politics, Feminism, Motherhood & Hip-Hop as “a http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/7/10/ana_tijoux
Documentry: In the Sky’s Wild Noise: A documentary on Dr. Walter Rodney (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=YqfcbmncFI0)
Brazilian Landless People’s Movement – (Review MST Website) http://www.mstbrazil.org/
Florestan Fernandes National School (Review MST school Website) http://www.mstbrazil.org/content/florestan-fernandes- national-school
Watch online: Cuco Fuso – The Art of Decolonization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWaY9q0zYI
Week 10:
Prison Literature, Memories and Women’s Writings
Required Readings
Angela Davis. (1971). Chapter 2: Political Prisoners and Black Liberation. If they come in the morning voices of resistance. New York, NY: Third Press, 1971, pp. 13-18. [Short Article]
Abdo, N. (2014). Political Detainees and the Israeli Prison System (Chapter 4). Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System.
Harlow, B. (1992). The Resistance in Prison (Chapter 6) Negotiating/Armed Struggle: South Africa. Barred: women, writing and political detention. New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press.
Razack, S. (2008). If it wasn’t for the sex and the photos: The Torture of Prisoners at Abu Ghraib. In Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law & Politics. University of Toronto Press.
Cultural Artifacts (Optional)
Political Prisoners: The Art of Resistance in the Middle East (Website analysis) http://womenpoliticalprisoners.com/
Working with Survivors of State Violence: An Arts Based Manual for Community Practitioners. https://womenpoliticalprisoners.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/working-with-survivors-of-state- violence.pdf
Week 11:
Geographies of borders, walls, occupation and resistance
Required Readings
Bannerji, Himani (2000). Geography Lessons: On Being and Insider/Outsider to the Canadian Nation. In The Dark Side of Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender, p. 63-86. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press
Mohanty, C., & Martin, B. (2003). “What’s Home Got to Do With It?” Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. p. 85-105. NC: Duke University Press.
Brand, Dionne. (2001). A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. p. 1-29. Toronto, ON: Vintage Canada.
Look at 1 from the following cultural artifacts:
Miranda, F. Mass Arrival, Decolonial Aesthetics in Action. http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/tag/farrah-miranda/
Richard Fung, Dal Puri Diaspora [Film Trailer]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXT_jQKvGI South Asian Visual Arts Center (Website Analysis). http://savac.net/about/
On Patrol with Arizona’s Minuteman Project’ [warning, there are images of dead people in film] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkXjMvUy5ak
Aleman,E. Stolen Education [Film Trailer].https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvkrmeGE58E Optional Readings:
Walcott, R. (2001). Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada: Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation. Small Axe, 5(1), p. 123-139
Turner, C. (2012). Evoking a site of memory: An Afrofuturist Sonic Walk that Maps Historic Toronto’s Black Geographies. Can be found at http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/20829/Camille%20Turner.pdf? sequence=1
Alsultany, E. (2008). The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11: Configurations of Race and Nation in T.V. Drama’s. In Eds, Jamal, A. & Naber, N. (2008). Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11, From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects. pg. 204-228.
Clare, Eli. (2009). Losing Home. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. p.31-49. Cambridge, MA: South End P Classics.
Bragger, J. (2015). Bodies of Water. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/bodies-of-water/. [Short Article]
Week 12: Transnational Solidarity and Culture
Required Reading
Chandni Desai. (2021). Indigenous Intifadas, Resurgent Solidarity: Disrupting Settler Colonial Capitalism from Wet’suwet’en to Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies. Volume 50(2).
Steven Salaita. (2016). Read Chapter 4 “Inter/National Aesthetics: Palestinians in Native Poetry”, In Inter/nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. University of Minnesota Press.
Gul Bilge Han. (2018). Nazim Hikmet’s Afro-Asian Solidarities. The Journal of South African and American Studies, 19(3), 284-305.
Look at 1 of the following cultural artifacts:
Kashmir Solidarity with Gaza. http://thekashmirwalla.com/2014/07/kashmiris-support- gaza-will-support/
Dream Defenders Solidarity Trip to Palestine (video) – https://vimeo.com/116675694
