Black Geographies: Race, Place, and Space in Space is one of TASS Critical Black Studies courses designed for students to address relationship between Black expressive culture, collective/everyday resistance, and uneven geographies. Theory and practice will engage Africana Indigenous knowledge systems, Caribbean intellectual traditions, Black British cultural studies, and Black Studies in the Americas.

Non-credit

Residential

Accepts International Students

Financial Aid

What is TASS-CBS?
This summer, high school juniors (“rising seniors”) will participate in six-week educational program related to Critical Black Studies.

Telluride works with faculty to create exciting courses designed to inspire young people to explore the histories, politics, literature, and art of people of African descent.

Black Geographies: Race, Place, and Space in Space
Seminar Description: This course is designed to engage students with questions addressing the relationship between Black expressive culture, collective/everyday resistance, and uneven geographies. This course will introduce students to the field of Black geographies as theorized by scholars Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods. Black geographies seek to consider what kind of possibilities emerge when a critical Black studies perspective encounters critical geography. That is to ask, what happens when we engage questions about the convergence of place, power, and difference? Students will therefore examine the global intersections between race/gender/class, Blackness, and spatial politics in the African world to reveal the various ways Black/Africana populations produce, know, and negotiate space through and against processes of dispossession/displacement, enslavement/exploitation, containment, and (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism.

Throughout the summer students will be introduced to a range of multidisciplinary conceptualizations that attempt to render visible the locations of Black/Africana history, selfhood, imagination, and resistance. We will ask ourselves, what are Black geographies? How do Black/Africana populations create and give meaning to space, place, and time? Why is space, place, and time so important? How are Black/Africana populations implicated in the production of space and produce a Black/Africana “sense of place”? In what ways do they bring into focus responses to geographic domination? How are Black/Africana histories, identities, cultures, conditions of resistance, imaginations, and life potentials attached to and affected by place? Finally, what is the imperative for a project of Black geographies? What types of knowledges—alternative socialities, social explanations and social actions, intellectual and aesthetic traditions—emerge to articulate praxis for realizing global social justice and give birth to a (re)new(ed) society, to new futures?

To attend to the complex movements of Africana peoples, histories, intellectual, and sociopolitical formations, our praxis (theory and practice) will engage (however, not be limited to): Africana Indigenous knowledge systems, Caribbean intellectual traditions, Black British cultural studies, and Black Studies in the Americas.

What will I get out of TASS-CBS?
At TASS-CBS, you will improve your reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as you explore your interests in and out of the classroom. In order to encourage students in their love of learning, the program does not assign grades. You will also learn about and explore topics and ideas within Critical Black Studies. Finally, you will gain experience with community living and democratic decision-making.

"Telluride Association Summer Seminars in Critical Black Studies (TASS-CBS). Black Geographies: Race, Place, and Space in Space "

Jun 26 - Aug 06

6 weeks

Residential

0 USD

TASS Is Completely Free!
We cover all of the program costs—tuition, books, room and board, and field trips—for every student. If you need, we can help pay for all or part of your travel costs to and from the program.

Financial Aid

We understand that you may normally spend time in the summer working at a job, taking care of family members, or supporting your family in other ways. If this is the situation for you, we can provide additional financial aid to help replace earnings from your summer job. Financial aid decisions are made separately from decisions about program admission, so needing financial aid won’t affect whether you are accepted to the program.