AAS 226 - Black Paris

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University of Rochester

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This course is a study of Black Paris, as imagined by three generations of Black cultural producers from the United States, the Caribbean and Africa. Paris is as a space of freedom and artistic glory that African American writers, solders and artists were denied back home. For colonized Africans, and Caribbeans, Paris was the birthace of the Negritude, the ultimate cultural renaissance influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. From Josephine Baker, Richard Wright, James Baldwin to Shay Youngblood's Black girl in Paris, from Aime Cesaire to Maryse Conde, from Bernard Dadie's An African in Paris and to contemporary Franco-African writing, we will investigate how the representation of Paris functions in the construction of a black identities. Readings include: Black Girl in Paris (Shay Youngblood), Desirada (Maryse Conde), The Josephine Baker Story. Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (Tyler Stovall), An Aftrican in Paris.(Bernard Dadie).

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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