Reason in Revolt: An Introduction to the Thought of Frantz Fanon

A post‐graduate course in the Department of Politics & International Relations at Rhodes University. This course will be taught on Friday afternoons during the first semester in 2016.

Frantz Fanon died in 1961. In the years that have passed since his death he has become a canonical thinker in a number of academic fields including postcolonial studies, critical race theory and Africana studies. In South Africa his ideas continue to animate some of the most compelling theoretical innovation that is being produced in the academy and to inspire and shape the thinking of political militants.

'We Must Work Out New Concepts': An Introduction to the Thought of Frantz Fanon

'We Must Work Out New Concepts'

An Introduction to the Thought of Frantz Fanon

A post-graduate course in the Department of Politics & International Relations at Rhodes University, to be taught by Richard Pithouse during the second semester, 2013.

Frantz Fanon died in 1961. In the years that have passed since his death he has become a canonical thinker in a number of academic fields including postcolonial studies, critical race theory and Africana studies. In South Africa his ideas continue to animate some of the most compelling theoretical innovation that is being produced in the academy and to inspire and shape the thinking of political militants.

An Introduction to the Thought of Frantz Fanon

'We Must Work Out New Concepts'

An Introduction to the Thought of Frantz Fanon

A post-graduate course in the Department of Politics & International Relations at Rhodes University, to be taught by Richard Pithouse during the second semester, 2012.

Frantz Fanon died in 1961. In the years that have passed since his death he has become a canonical thinker in a number of academic fields including postcolonial studies, critical race theory and Africana studies. In South Africa his ideas continue to animate some of the most compelling theoretical innovation that is being produced in the academy and to inspire and shape the thinking of political militants.

Frantz Fanon – An Introduction: Sociology 3, Rhodes University, 2012

Frantz Fanon – An Introduction

Sociology 3, Rhodes University, 2012

Week One – Black Skin, White Masks

1.      Introduction (no compulsory reading)

2.      'The Negro & Language' (Chapter 1 from Black Skin, White Masks)

http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/05/fanon-reading-group-text-two-negro.html

3.      'The Fact of Blackness' (Chapter 5 from Black Skin, White Masks)

http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/06/fact-of-blackness.html

4.      'Interview with Steve Biko', 1972  http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-steve-biko-1972.html

Frantz Fanon Fifty Years On - Course Outline

Frantz Fanon Fifty Years On

A post-graduate course in the Department of Political Studies & International Relations at Rhodes University, to be taught by Richard Pithouse as part of the Thinking Africa project During the Second Semester, 2011

Frantz Fanon died in 1961. In the fifty years that have passed since his death he has become a canonical thinker in a number of academic fields including postcolonial studies and critical race theory. His ideas continue to animate some of the most compelling theoretical innovation that is being produced in the South African academy and in Africana studies more generally.