Readings: Memmi, part one

Course Readings:

Required:

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government, chs. 18 & 19 [available on Canvas]

Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose” [available on Canvas]

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto [available on-line]

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism [part three of The Origins of Totalitarianism]

Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized

Gandhi, selected readings [available on Canvas]

Frances Fox Piven, Challenging Authority

Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy [available on-line]

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope

Concept papers: these one-page papers should provide a brief statement of what you deem to be a central concept presented by the theorist with particular consideration about how this conception corresponds with the key themes of the course. The goal is to develop reading, analytical, and writing skills as well as to facilitate class discussions.