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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; the different 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, post-colonial state, and the wars of the Great Lakes and Sudan. (Same as Africana Studies 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 Africana Studies 265.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. CONNIE CHIANG. Surveys the history of Asian Americans from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Explores the changing experiences of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans within the larger context of American history. Major topics include immigration and migration, race relations, anti-Asian movements, labor issues, gender relations, family and community formation, resistance and civil rights, and representations of Asian Americans in American popular culture. Readings and course materials include scholarly essays and books, primary documents, novels, memoirs, and films.
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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 Africana Studies 269.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. KIDDER SMITH. An introduction to the competing schools of Chinese thought in the time of Confucius and his successors. (Same as Asian Studies 270.)
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3.00 Credits
d.Cosmic Sexualities in East and South Asian Cultures
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3.00 Credits
d.A Social History of Shamanism in East Asia
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. KIDDER SMITH. Examines Chinese poetry from early times through its great flourishing in the Tang dynasty (618-906), situating it in its social, political, and religious contexts. Students who have previously enrolled in this course cannot repeat the course for credit. (Same as Asian Studies 274.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006 and Fall 2008. KIDDER SMITH. An introduction to the history of China from 1840 to the present. Studies the confrontation with Western imperialism, the fall of empire, the Republican period, and the People's Republic. (Same as Asian Studies 275.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. KIDDER SMITH. Examines three questions: What was old Tibet Is Tibet part of China What are conditions there now Analyzes the complex interactions of politics and society with Buddhist doctrine and practice. (Same as Asian Studies 276.)
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