Black Existentialism

By John E. Drabinski

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Podcasted process pieces from my course Black Existentialism. The course introduces one of the most important and potent mid-century intellectual movements - the existentialist movement - through a series of black Atlantic thinkers. Our keystone will be Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, which is arguably the most important work of Black existentialism from this period. Across the semester we will see why existentialism, with its focus on the ambiguities and ambivalences of lived-experience, had such a deep impact on Black thinkers across the diaspora. We will see these existentialist insights register in literature, philosophy, and film. Old and new.

Episode Date
Jenkins on Masculinity, Touch, and Vulnerability
Apr 27, 2023
Wright on Guns, Masculinity, and Violence
Apr 26, 2023
Wright on Antiblackness, Guilt, and Death in Native Son
Apr 26, 2023
Wright on Visibility, Death, and the Possibility of Black Life
Apr 26, 2023
Burnett on Despair, Abandonment, and Pessimism in Killer of Sheep
Apr 26, 2023
Davis on Negation, Liberation, and Formation of Self
Apr 26, 2023
Walcott on History, Race, and Identity
Apr 24, 2023
Ellison on Sound, Invisibility, and World-Making
Apr 21, 2023
Hurston on Black Expressive Life and World-Making
Apr 18, 2023
Lamming on Writing, Race, and the Human Condition
Apr 13, 2023
Sartre on Blackness, Liberation, and Dialectics
Apr 13, 2023
Césaire on Diaspora, Culture, and Colonization
Apr 13, 2023
Fanon on Racism, Culture, and Social Reproduction
Mar 06, 2023
Fanon on Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Identity
Mar 03, 2023
Fanon on Resistance, Humanism, and Futurity
Feb 24, 2023
Fanon on the Gaze, Antiblackness, and Lived-Experience
Feb 24, 2023
Fanon on Language, Antiblackness, and Interracial Desire
Feb 17, 2023
Fanon on Non-Being, Language, and Colonialism as a Total Project
Feb 14, 2023
Sartre on the Jew, Situatedness, and Responsibility
Feb 13, 2023
Sartre, Existentialism, Antisemitism, and the Democrat
Feb 07, 2023
Framing Du Bois as an Existentialist
Feb 02, 2023
What is Existentialism? And Why "Black" Existentialism?
Feb 01, 2023