PARW 7586 - African Black Mother and Black Madonnas

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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This feminist cultural history course is grounded on Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum's books, Black Madonnas: Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy, and Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers. Students analyze evidence of genetics, archaeology, and folklore for the oldest veneration we know, a dark woman of Central and South Africa whose signs were carried by African migrants to every continent after 50,000 BCE. Other topics include the memory of the African black mother in saints' stories, peasant women's (comari, comadri, commere ) rituals, and vernacularart; persecution of dark others in Europe (Canaanites, Israelites, Muslims, and heretics); comparisons of white elites in the United States with persecution and social control of dark others; the rise of dark others in the world in 1950s and 1960s; and contemporary dark mothers.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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