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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Key texts and concepts in African American studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of events, movements, theories, and texts that have shaped development of the African diaspora. Topics include slavery, abolitionism, pan-Africanism, the culture-politics nexus, hip-hop, AIDS, and linkages among gender, sexuality, and diasporic sensibilities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to scholarship and key theories that treat race, class, and gender as intersecting social constructs. Race, class, and gender in work, family and reproduction, education, poverty, sexuality, and consumer culture. How race, class, and gender inform identity, ideology, and politics to incite social change.
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3.00 Credits
See African American Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Divides between Asians and blacks; areas of positive cross-cultural collaboration. Historical analysis of reparations, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and affirmative action. Cross-racial exchange in youth expressions, popular culture, hip-hop.
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3.00 Credits
African American folklore in a variety of genres and forms of presentation, from both rural and urban communities. Includes folk narratives, folksongs, the dozens, toasts, jokes and humor, folk beliefs, preachers, folk heroes, and the literary transformation of folk materials.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of how race and ethnicity have influenced the evolution of the U.S. Constitution and legal debate and practice. Topics include affirmative action, school integration, and the death penalty. Prerequisite: 220 or POLI SCI 220 or 230.
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3.00 Credits
Race as a social concept and recurrent cause of differentiation in multiracial societies. Impact of race on social, cultural, economic, and political institutions. Discussion of prejudice, racism, and discrimination.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the methodology and findings of qualitative research on black communities in the United States. Topics include black migration, urban geography, black culture, class and gender stratification, racial identity.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the scope of poverty in America, competing theories about its causes, and how racial stratification creates and perpetuates economic marginalization. Public-policy responses to the plight of the poor; debates about the future of antipoverty policy, with emphasis on the relationship between racial and economic stratification. Prerequisite: 236-1 or SOCIOL 110.
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