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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. PATRICK RAEL. (Same as History 25.)
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3.00 Credits
2007. DAVID GORDON. A survey of historical developments before conquest by European powers, with a focus on west and central Africa. Explores the political, social, and cultural changes that accompanied the intensification of Atlantic Ocean trade and revolves around a controversy in the study of Africa and the Atlantic World: What influence did Africans have on the making of the Atlantic World, and in what ways did Africans participate in the slave trade How were African identities shaped by the Atlantic World and by the slave plantations of the Americas Ends by considering the contradictory effects of Abolition on Africa. (Same as History 262.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. DAVID GORDON. Focuses on conquest, colonialism, and its legacies in sub-Saharan Africa-the violent process of colonial "pacification," examined from European and African perspectives; thedifferent ways of consolidating colonial rule and African resistance to colonial rule, from Maji Maji to Mau Mau; and African nationalism and independence, as experienced by Africa's nationalist leaders, from Kwame Nkrumah to Jomo Kenyatta, and their critics. Concludes with the limits of independence-mass disenchantment, the rise of the "predatory" postcoloniastate, and the wars of the Great Lakes and Sudan. (Same as History 264.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DAVID GORDON. History of the Indian Ocean World from the perspective of the east African littoral, and in particular the Swahili islands of Zanzibar. Examines African engagement with the Indian Ocean World and the rise of African diasporas across the Middle East and South Asia. Begins prior to the Portuguese conquest; continues through Omani, British, and German colonialism, and the Zanzibar revolution of 1964; and culminates in the rise of independent Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, and Somalia. (Same as History 265.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DAVID GORDON. Seminar. Investigates the diverse representations and uses of the past in South Africa. Begins with the difficulties in developing a critical and conciliatory version of the past in postapartheid South Africa during and after the much-discussed Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Then turns to diverse historical episodes and sites of memory from the Great Trek to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela to explore issues of identity and memory from the perspectives of South Africa's various peoples. (Same as History 269.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. MARK FOSTER. Contemporary critics have argued that late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century understandings of same-sex desiring identities acquired early visibility through self-conscious analogies to racial categorization, i.e., a homosexual is like a mixed-race person: s/he is half one thing and half another. Such beliefs continue to endure to the present day. One of its legacies is the belief that struggles against racial oppression and sexual oppression are mutually exclusive. Uses close readings of both popular and lesser known lesbigay/ transgendered narratives of the era to explore the cultural and theoretical implications of these beliefs, as well as the challenges they have sometimes presented to conceptualizing and implementing radical social change. Possible authors/texts include Radclyffe Hall, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Ann Bannon, Rita Mae Brown, Ann Allen Shockley, Patricia Nell Warren, Leslie Feinberg, James Earl Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Audre Lorde, Take Me Out: A Play, M Butterfly, and Noah's Arc. (Same as English 273 and Gender and Women's Studies205.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English, Africana Studies, or Gender and Women's Studies. Note: This course is offered as part of the curriculum in Gay and Lesbian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Every year. Spring 2007. ELIZABETH MUTHER. Explorations of short fiction by African American writers from fugitive narratives to futurist science fiction. Focuses on strategies of cultural survival as mapped in narrative form-with special interest in trickster storytellers, alternative temporalities, and doublevoicing. Close attention paid to the exigencies of the short form, the experimental ground of the short story and its role for emerging writers, and notable anthologies and the role of stories in movement-making. (Same as English 275.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Every other year. Spring 2008. PETER COVIELLO. A study of the relations between sentiment and belonging across the American nineteenth century. Considers both how a language of impassioned feeling promised to consolidate a nation often bitterly divided, and some of the problems with that promise. Centers on a reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other authors may include Jefferson,Wheatley, Melville, Hawthorne, Wilson, Harper, and Du Bois. (Same as English 277.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. DAN MOOS. As early as 1773, African Americans petitioned whites in power for their removal from America so that they might start a community or nation of their own. Examines the impulses toward colonization and emigration in African-American history, including movements that looked to Africa as an African-American state. Looks at historical documents, essays, and speeches, but focuses primarily on the speculative possibilities offered by African-American authors such as Oscar Micheaux, Martin R. Delany, Surron Griggs, and Toni Morrison. Explores real and fictional black nations, black towns, and even secret black governments and tries to determine the impulse for this departure, as well as the ideological import of black separation from the American nation. (Same as English 281.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. DAN MOOS. Engages the writings of black women in the nineteenth century. Includes reading of poetry, novels, essays, activist literature, slave narratives, and autobiographies in order to understand the complicated position of nineteenth-century black women with reference to patriarchy, racism, slavery, abolitionism, education, the African Diaspora, and national affiliation. Special attention is paid to the scholarly tensions with the more celebrated tradition of nineteenth-century prose by African American men. Authors include Harriet Jacobs, Mary Ann Shadd, France E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Pauline Hopkins, Hannah Crafts, Mary Prince, and others. (Same as English 280 and Gender and Women's Studies 280.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar of 100-level course in English, Africana Studies or Gender and Women's Studies, or permission of instructor. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.
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