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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, one hour. Exploration of historic and cultural relationship between African Americans and Ghana as part of larger discourse on contemporary black diaspora. Attention to past that linked African Americans to Ghana through Atlantic slave trade and impact on both Ghana and those Ghanians who became American slaves. Consideration of development of Ghana since trade ended, following its history as both colony of Britain and as independent state. Examination of cultural, intellectual, and political connections between African Americans and Ghana (and West Africa more broadly) over time. Concurrently scheduled with course C230A. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, one hour. Consideration of important intellectual question of destiny of traditional West African cultures in black America. Did enslaved people from Africa arrive in North America completely devoid of their cultures Did they maintain some cultural attributes for some generations Were all vestiges of African cultures invisible by end of U.S. Civil War How was culture of African Americans transformed across time and space Who are major contributors to this debate and what have been their intellectual and methodological approaches How can study of Ghanian cultures contribute to this discourse Focus on traditional cultures of West Africa, particularly Ghana, and its imprint on black culture in North America. Concurrently scheduled with course C230B. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Research seminar on selected topics in Afro-American studies. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C291. Letter grading.
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6.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; screenings, two hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Role of media in society and its influence on contemporary cultural environment, specifically in Los Angeles; issues of representation as they pertain to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of extant materials on history and literature of theater as developed and performed by African American artists in America from slavery to mid- 1800s. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Theater M103B.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of extant materials on history and literature of theater as developed and performed by African American artists in America from minstrel stage to rise of American musical. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of extant materials on history and literature of theater as developed and performed by African American artists in America from Depression to present. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of black American literature from 18th century through World War I, including oral and written forms (folktales, spirituals, sermons; fiction, poetry, essays), by authors such as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frances Harper, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, and Pauline Hopkins. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of 20th-century black American literature from New Negro Movement of post-World War I period to 1960s, including oral materials (ballads, blues, speeches) and fiction, poetry, and essays by authors such as Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
(Same as English M104C.) Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of diverse forms of Afro-American literary expression produced from rise of Black Arts Movement of 1960s to present by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Etheridge Knight, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paule Marshall, Ernest Gaines, Ishmael Reed, and Audre Lorde. P/NP or letter grading.
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