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This course traces the major sites of protest, opposition, and resistance in African American history since 1896. By examining the development of the American civil rights movement, this course complicates traditional understandings of black liberation struggles in America. Who were these civil rights activists? How did they unify? What were their priorities? How did they imagine black freedom? How did these events play out in public life? The readings and assignments facilitate a critical analytical approach to the 20th-century struggle for civil rights and racial equality in America.
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This course will examine the history of blacks in the New World from the 15th to the late 19th century. Beginning with the expansion of Europeans into then newly discovered lands (from their perspective) in Africa and the Americas, this class explores the Middle Passage, and the history of slavery and emancipation in a hemispheric context, as well as the ideology of race during the 18th and 19th centuries. The course adopts a disaporic perspective in order to demonstrate the world-systemic dimensions of the history of Blacks in the Americas, and therefore it aims to show that rather than constituting a "minority," Blacks represent one of the founding civilizations (along with Western Europeans and the Indigenous populations) to the "new worlds" that would be instituted in the wake of the Encounter of 1492.
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This course explores some of the defining social, political, and cultural moments that reflect the experience of African Americans within the United States, Reconstruction to present day. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on several broad themes, including identity, citizenship, agency, and impact. As scholars, we will examine major moments in African American history, including segregation under Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the modern Civil Rights Movement, and the development of hip hop culture. How did African Americans define their relationship with the nation? How did their notions of race, citizenship, and freedom intersect with broad ideas about class, gender, and culture? How did African Americans challenge the legacies of slavery over the course of the 20th Century? Our semester-long historical investigation will highlight and trace a multitude of events and concepts, all of which will help us to reveal the diversity, breadth, and significance of the black experience in modern America.
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This course looks at the formation and representation of African American identity within the context of the quest for the full rights of United States citizenship during the 20th century. Focusing upon the intersection between the cultural and political realms, we will explore the roots and routes of the African cultural diaspora as the foundation of urban, northern, politically-conscious cultural production. Using a variety of texts including literature, plays, films, and visual arts, we will examine touchstone moments of the African American experience including the Great Migration and World War I; the New Negro Movement; the Great Depression and the New Deal; post-war America and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
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This course will introduce students to the three most important literary movements of African American culture: the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the contemporary (1996-) Cave Canem program. It will provide brief overviews of major authors and books of the first two movements, concentrating in depth on the Cave Canem movement, which is still very much alive. Course materials will include books of poetry, and audio and video recordings, in addition to interviews in person or via Skype.
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This course will introduce students to the field of African American studies with some emphasis on the black diaspora. It will provide an interdisciplinary overview of keys issues in the field through explorations of theories and methods that seek to both explicate and document black experiences. Particular attention will be paid to the continuous and discontinuous impact of history on current political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments. Topics include, but are not limited to, slavery and resistance, racial inequity, self-definition, black radicalism, gender politics, and cultural productions. Course materials also include film, music, and video in addition to scholarly texts that offer nuanced perspectives on diverse black communities in the United States.
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This course will examine the genre of African American autobiography, from slave narratives to contemporary memoirs. What makes this genre distinctive, and how do its individual narratives (that is, the narratives of individual African Americans) relate to-or create-a larger literary tradition? How do writers retrospectively confront the knotty issues of family, identity, geography, and memory (or "re-memory," to borrow a phrase from Toni Morrison)? We will consider a range of first-person narratives and their representations of race, of space, of migration, and of violence, as well as the historical circumstances that inform these representations.
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This course will introduce students to some of the seminal works and key figures of Japanese women authors in the modern and contemporary eras. We will explore the big question often posed in feminism--Do women write differently?--by conducting close readings of the language and narrative device in the texts.
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This course explores various styles of traditional and Modern Chinese poetry from the archaic period to the 21st century, with an emphasis on the range of ways in which poetry has been implicated, to a degree unknown in the West, in the political, spiritual and aesthetic movements in China over the last three millennia. Topics include Book of Songs, "Nineteen Ancient Poems," the "Music Bureau" Ballads, Six Dynasties Poetry, the great Tang masters, the Song lyrics, women poets, religious poets, etc. Although some Chinese characters will be introduced in the unit on calligraphy, no knowledge of Chinese is required; all readings will be in English translation.
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The course will offer an overview of major fiction writers and film directors in contemporary PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The genres of Chinese film that it will examine include Hong Kong action film, fifth-generation mainland cinema, and Taiwanese urban dramas. We will look at these literary and visual texts in light of a number of topics such as violence, fantasy and the martial-arts genre, traumatic memory and aesthetic representation of cultural and political upheaval, and the issue of gender, sexuality, and identity in the age of globalization.
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