CHLT 063 CH - Transformative Life of Malcolm X

How did the world shape Malcolm X and his radical politics? In asking this question, we will study how Malcolm X’s transformation from a hustler to a prisoner to a Black Muslim significantly shaped hisrevolutionary vision for liberation. His life experience gave him an understanding that Black liberation in the United States is entangled with the Third World. As a class, we will situate Malcolm X within this complex history of anticolonialism and Civil Rights to learn how Malcolm X transformed himself to transform theworld.

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