April 4 & 6 Readings

Tuesday, April 4: Who has the prerogative of violence?

• Fanon, Frantz. 2021 [1961]. “On Violence.” In Wretched of the Earth. Links to an external site. NY: Grove Press, 30–52 of eBook. Transl. Richard Philcox.
• Fanon, Frantz. 2018 [1956]. “Letter to the Resident Minister” In Alienation and Freedom Download Alienation and Freedom. Bloomsbury Academic, 433-435.
• Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha. “The Jungle Academy: Molding White Supremacy in American Police Recruits Links to an external site..” American Anthropologist 122 (1), 143–156.

Thursday, April 6: Thinking from the position of the non-human.

• Weheliye, Alexander. 2008. “After Man Links to an external site..” American Literary History 20(1/2): 321–336.
• Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. 2015. “Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement “Beyond the Human. Links to an external site.” GLQ 21(2), 215–218 (Part of a forum on Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms, ed. José Esteban Muñoz).
• Dubal, Sam. 2018. Introduction: “Against Humanity.” In Against Humanity: Lessons from the Lord’s Resistance Army Links to an external site.. University of California Press, 1–36.