| Dr. Barnor Hesse |
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology
Address:
African American Studies
Department
2-320 Kresge Hall
1880 S. Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208-2209
Phone:
Fax: 847-491-4803
Email:
hb-hesse@northwestern.edu |
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Courses:
AFAM 401: Conceptual Methodologies – Critical Theory as Method in Post-Colonial African American Studies
AFAM 375 - Globalization, Eurocentrism, Black Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial African American Studies
AFAM 363: Social Formations of Racism in Western Modernity
AFAM 245: The Black Diaspora and Transnationality: Black Representations in Bodies, Movements and Geographies
AFAM 236: Introduction to African American Studies: Debates in Black Political Thought, Social Movements and Cultural Identities since the late 19th Century
Degree:
Ph.D. in Government (Ideology and Discourse Analysis), University of Essex (UK)
Current Research:
'Dark Matters, Black Thought ' – this book project elaborates the meaning of postcolonial Black thought. It specifies three formations 'coloniality', 'racism', and 'multiculturalism' which are designated as conceptual environments of Black thought. Coloniality, racism and multiculturalism are also taken to comprise the dark matters of western social and political theory. Here dark matter refers to that which is conventionally unseen by western social and political theory, and yet encircles, interrupts and shadows western thought without the latter having any visible response to this dark matter until it is illuminated by Black thought.
'Paradoxes of Racism' – this book project undertaken with Dr. S. Sayyid, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds (U.K.) addresses the constitution of race as both a practice of governance and a governing mentality in western culture that has been obscured by scholars and activists solely concerned with invalidating the idea that 'race' has any scientific status or with demonstrating the social construction of 'race' in relation to biological or ethnic referents. It particularly considers what social and political implications arise from western liberal-democracies committed to the elimination of ideological racism, yet imbricated in its governmental persistence.
Recent Publications:
'Creolizing the Political: a Genealogy of the African Diaspora', Duke University Press (in press, forthcoming, 2009).
'Symptomatically Black: A Creolization of the Political' in S. Shih and F. Lionnet Eds. 'The Creolization of Theory' (Duke University press, forthcoming, 2009).
'Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability' in D. Hine, T. Keaton and S. Small eds. 'Black Europe and the African Diaspora' (University of Illinois press, forthcoming, 2008).
'Racialized. Modernity: An Analytics of White Mythologies', Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 30, No.4, July 2007, pp. 643-663
- with S. Sayyid. 'Narrating the Political Postcolonial and the Immigrant Imaginary' in N. Ali, V. Kalra and S. Sayyid eds., 'A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain', London: Hurst, 2006.
"Discourse on Institutional Racism: the genealogy of a concept" (2004) in I. Law, D. Phillips and L. Turney, Institutional Racism in Higher education (Trentham books)
"Im/plausilbe Deniability: Racism's Conceptual Double Bind" (2004) in Social Identities , Vol.10, No.1
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