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1.50 Credits
Roberts Exploration of the distinctive and diverse experiences of women on West African ancestry in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics, including labor, activism, feminism, family, and community, are examined within the theoretical framework. Narratives, autobiographies, letters, journals, speeches, essays, and other primary documents constitute most of the required reading. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Roberts Mainly through primary readings, films, and guest lectures, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grassroots organizing in the Deep South. History 111b recommended. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson Survey of the visual arts produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists and changing relationship to African arts and cultures. Examines the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition that interrogates visual constructions of "blackness" and"whiteness," gender and sexuality as a means of revisioningrepresentational practices. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Race Feminism (CRF) examine the role of law in constructing and maintaining racialized, gendered, and classed disparities of justice. The course examines the intellectual, aesthetic, and political convergences of critical jurisprudence with representational practices in the visual arts. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
P. Jackson An interdisciplinary interrogation of linguistic, conceptual, and practical solipsisms that contributed to the construction and normalization of whiteness in aesthetics, art, visual culture, film, and mass media. The course questions the dialectics of "blackness" and"whiteness" that dominate in Western intellectualthought and popular culture, thereby informing historical and contemporary notions and representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Fairchild Critically examines contemporary literature in African American psychology. Emphasizes the ideas of leading theorists (e.g. Na'im Akbar, Wade Nobels, Linda Myers) and the research literature on contemporary problems (e.g. teen pregnancy, gangs). Prerequisites: introductory Black studies psychology course, or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Fairchild This seminar explores an area of longstanding concern in social psychology: racism. It does so by reviewing the works of leading social psychologists' theory, research and praxis in this area of concern. An important component of the course is the incorporation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of racism. Offered occasionally. .
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1.50 Credits
Staff Topics change from year to year. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Harris This course explores the work of one of America's greatest writers whose importance resides in part in his calling into question national practices and injustices in regards to race, sexuality, religion, civil rights struggles and other political matters. Baldwin was a frequent expatriate with an enormous literary talent for capturing the pathos of being American across a range of social identities and issues. This course examines the themes and nuances of Baldwin's essays, novels, and plays. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Lemelle History of Africa from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century. Attention given to the methodology and theoretical framework used by the Africanists, the development of early African civilizations, and current debates and trends in historiography of Africa. Offered every other year.
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