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1.50 Credits
Staff This course, taught by an intercollegiate faculty team, introduces principal themes in American culture. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together such areas as art, music, politics, social history, literature and anthropology. Topics frequently covered include the origins of the American self, ethnic diversity, immigration, women, the West, modernism, consensus and dissent. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Interdisciplinary examination of a problem in the history, politics and culture of the United States. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Lemelle Examination of the historical evolution of the Pan- African concept and its political, social, and economic implications for the world generally and for Black people in particular. Discussion of the 20th-century writers of Pan-Africanism, and especially of Padmore, DuBois, Garvey, Nkrumah, Malcolm X, and Toure (Carmichael) in terms of the contemporary problems of African Americans. Prerequisites: lower division Black Studies course, and permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lemelle Interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. Provides a fundamental, intellectual understanding of the global Black experience as it has been described and interpreted in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Roberts Grounded in a transnational comparative approach, this course connects the diverse and complex experiences, belief systems, and institutions of Blacks in the United States with those of others in the Diaspora. Beginning with pre-European contact in West and central Africa, we will examine the multifaceted nature of distinct cultures, forms of nationalism, significance of protest, and gender and class relations across time and space. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Roberts This is the second half of the African Diaspora in the United States survey. This course connects Black emancipation and post-emancipation political struggles throughout the Diaspora. Other topics include nationalism, civil rights, and contemporary feminist theory. History 111a is not a prerequisite for History 111b. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Roberts This course examines the role of power and race in the lives and experiences of slave women in antebellum United States mainly through primary and secondary readings. Topics include gender and labor distinctions, the slave family, significance of the internal slave trade, and regional differences among slave women's experiences. The course ends with slave women's responses during the Civil War. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
M. Shelton Examination of works by writers and filmmakers from French-speaking countries of Africa (Senegal, Cameroon, van Burkina Faso) and the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti). Special emphasis will be placed on questions of identity, the impact of colonialism, social and cultural values, as well as the nature of aesthetic creation. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Harris This course offers an exploration of language, imagery, and themes concerned with the sexual and racial politics of love and revolution as conceived in 20th-century black women's poetry/song. In addition to reading, writing, and oral presentations about poets/singers such as Johnson, Grimke, Smith, Brooks, Holiday, Sanchez, Jordan, Lorde, and Jones, students write poetry/song reflective of what/ why/how/where/when notions of love and revolution are articulated in this body of work as values/weapons/ desires for social justice and change. Juniors and seniors only. Prerequisite: one Black studies course, or permission of instructor. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Roberts This course explores the varied ways in which scientific racism functioned against African Americans in the United States from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, and addresses African American intellectuals' responses to biological racism through explicit racial theories and less explicit means such as slave narratives, novels, essays, and films. Offered every other year.
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