Frantz Fanon Study Group Opportunity
Join the Abolition School for another amazing semester of hybrid political education collaboration with Haymarket Books! This semester, we'll be digging into curated readings from across the career of anticolonial revolutionary Frantz Fanon, doing so as always with an eye to distilling crucial lessons for the struggles on the horizon.
Meetings will take place Wednesdays beginning February 4th, at 5:30 PM EST.
In this 12-week course, we'll read selections from Fanon's four major English-language publications, with an eye to the following questions:
What is the relationship between racism and (de-)colonization?
What is Fanon's relationship to the dialectical tradition, Hegelian or Marxist?
What does it mean to "stretch" Marxist concepts, as Fanon describes it?
What is the role of violence in history?
What does Fanon teach us about contemporary struggles, and Palestinian liberation in particular?
This is a hybrid seminar. Philadelphia-based participants are welcome to meet in-person in West Philadelphia, while remote participants will be able to contribute to the conversation via Haymarket's YouTube channel. This course will refer to the new translations of Fanon's work by Richard Philcox, but any edition will work. You can access digital copies of Fanon's books here: Black Skin, White Masks, Toward the African Revolution, A Dying Colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth.
This is the third in a series. Previous seminars on Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois and The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James can be accessed on Spotify, YouTube, and Haymarket Books.