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Course Criteria
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson The course examines documentary films and videos created by filmmakers from Africa and African Diaspora in the United States, Britain, and the Caribbean. Topics include: history and aesthetics of documentary filmmaking, documentary as an art, the narrative documentary, docu-drama, cinema verite, biography, autobiography, and historical documentary. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
D. Smith This course thematically explores some of the many ways African Americans, in particular, have encountered and responded to evils both as part of and apart from the broader Western tradition. We will see how the African- American encounter with evil troubles the distinction often made between natural and moral evil, and highlights the tensions between theodicies and ethical concerns. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Lemelle Survey course covering the history of Africans and their descendants in the Americas from the epoch of the Trans- Atlantic slave trade until the end of the 19th century. Divided into two general sections: the slave epoch, and the emancipation (and aftermath). Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality, and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, analysis, assessment, or strategy for bringing about change in the United States. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson The course examines visual arts and cultural criticism produced by women from Africa and the African Diaspora (North American, Caribbean, and European). Students identify and analyze aesthetic values, key representational themes, visual conventions, symbolic codes, and stylistic approaches created from feminism's love of Blackness, Africaness, and justice. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Mayes This course examines the social and political effects of racial and ethnic categorization for people of African descent in Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. We will look at the social organization of difference from a theoretical and historical perspective as it relates to colonialism, economic systems of production, such as slavery, issues of citizenship, national belonging and government services, and access to resources. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Hurley Designed to facilitate students' understanding of the Afro-American psychological experience, the course begins with a critical review of historical and traditional approaches to the psychological study of Black people. We will next examine the careers and contributions of the first three generations of Black psychologists who set the foundations for the current (4th) generation. We conclude with a look at Black psychology today and its influence on the mainstream of the field. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
M. Shelton Reading and analysis of works of fiction, poetry, and drama representing the most important trends in African and Caribbean literatures. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Canada. M. Shelton Examination of works by women writers from the Caribbean who live in the U.S. and Canada. Seeks to uncover the complex nature of cross-cultural encounters. Explores the strategies used by these writers to define themselves both inside and outside the body politic of two societies. Attention given to questions of identity, exile, history, memory, and language. Authors include Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall, Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff. Prerequisite: upper-division literature course or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
V. Thomas A seminar on Morrison's contributions to African- American literature, the Western canon, Black feminist discourse, and promoting African Diaspora literacy. Students will examine Morrison as a writer of fiction, literary criticism, essays, short stories, cultural criticism, and editorial commentaries. Offered every other year.
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