POLT 249 - From Bandung to the Black Panthers: The past, present and future of the Third World Internationalism

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS

“The Third World was not a place. It was a project” - Vijay Prashad. This course examines the rich tradition of Third Wordist intellectual thought and politics from the heyday of anticolonial nationalism in the 1950s to its afterlives today. Although Third World internationalism envisioned an alternative world order from the imperial, capitalist West, it was also a project fraught with conflicts and compromises. This course asks what it means to speak of a Third Worldist movement both past and present, examining its past pitfalls and promises, and future possibilities, through academic and journalistic writing, memoirs, fiction and film.

Enrollment Limit: 24
Instructor: C. Chua