This course will be of interest to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of abolition (past and present), anti- and de -colonial thought, critical perspectives on liberalism and Marxism, Black feminist thought, and anyone wanting a foundation for future study in Africana philosophy and Black Studies. We will track the different ways in which thinkers in Africana Philosophy and Black Studies have articulated distinctive approaches to freedom. We will pay particular attention to humanism and its limits; carcerality, slavery, and capitalism; violence; gender and sexuality; land and place; the nation and alternatives to it such as Black Anarchism; and philosophies of history, memory, and agency.Potential readings include work by: W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Huey B Newton, Saidiya Hartman, Frank B. Wilderson, Robin D Kelley, Neil Roberts, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R James, Édouard Glissant, Cedric Robinson, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Rinaldo Walcott.