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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Using a social constructionist approach to race, this course examines the multiple ways in which racial discourses operate in global literary cultures. It emphasizes that blackness need not be a homogeneous concept in order to continue to be a powerful agent in the postmodern world.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of the history, culture, economic conditions, policy debates, and social movements of Blacks in Southern California from 1781 to the present. Music, literature, film, autobiography, and social theory are used to analyze the processes of regional and racial transformation.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the evolution of African American urban communities. Focuses on theoretical and historiographical debates: social organization; conditions; daily life; culture; social movements; sustainable development; and class, gender, race relations. Analysis of current policy debates and community initiatives.
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4.00 Credits
History of Francophone West Indian and African literature from the 1920s through the 1950s. Writers studied include Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, Leon Gontran Damas, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Jane and Paulette Nardal.
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4.00 Credits
A study of theoretical and literary discourses of decolonization that appeared simultaneously in Africa and the West Indies after the second World War. Writers studied include Mongo Beti, Camara Laye, Aime Cesaire, Ferdinand Oyono, Miriam Warner-Viegyra, Maryse Conde, and Simone Schwartz-Bart.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a theoretical overview of the role of race and ethnicity in local, national, and international public policy debates. Examines critical case studies of several policies: regional development, social welfare, environment, criminal justice, etc. Student policy projects with fieldwork component.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and class in creating disadvantage and advantage. In examining how racism, sexism, and heterosexism shape black life chances in a 21st century context, this course focuses on systems of oppression that exist within and outside black communities.
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4.00 Credits
Examines past and contemporary scholarship in black feminist thought. By examining the intervention of black feminist thought within mainstream feminist theory and the field of black studies, this course presents a critical examination of the theoretical and practical contributions of black feminist scholars.
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4.00 Credits
This course will give a sociological over view of the experiences of Blacksin the United States from slavery to the present. Sociological analysis of the changing historical significance of Black poverty, the Black family, and the Black worker in the United States will be presented.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the Afro-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.
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