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3.00 Credits
Robert Stepto. For description see under American Studies.
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Robert Stepto. w 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and 1960, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic, and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden. Includes sessions at the Beinecke Library for inspection and discussion of original editions, manuscripts, letters, and other archival material.
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Deborah Thomas. th 1.30-3.20 Hu,So (0) Junior sem An interdisciplinary, thematic approach to the study of race, nation, and ethnicity in the African diaspora. Topics include class, gender, color, and sexuality; the dynamics of reform, Pan-Africanism, neocolonialism, and contemporary black nationalism. Use of a broad range of methodologies.
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Hazel Carby. m9.25-11.15 Hu (0) Consideration of the nature of utopian and dystopian ideas and the relation between early science fiction and the political project of colonization. Readings of speculative fiction and critical essays from the middle of the twentieth century to the present, including a survey of writing by African American authors.
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Kathleen Cleaver. t 1.30-3.20 So (0) Writings and scholarship of women are used to examine struggles against slavery, racial segregation, economic exploitation, and gender discrimination in the United States. Focus on women who were abolitionists, civil rights leaders, and freedom fighters.
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Khalilah Brown-Dean. For description see under Political Science.
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Thomas DeFrantz. For description see under Theater Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Elizabeth Alexander. w 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) African American poetry from 1960 to the present, including theoretical approaches to poetry and poetics. Authors include Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Amiri Baraka, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, and Michael Harper.
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3.00 Credits
Robert Stepto. For description see under English Language & Literature. afam 465b/afst 477b/musi 487b, Traditional and Contemporary Music of Sub-Saharan Africa. Michael Veal. For description see under Music.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. htba (0) Independent research under the direction of a member of the department on a special topic in African American studies not covered in other courses. Permission of the director of undergraduate studies and of the instructor directing the research is required. A proposal signed by the instructor must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies by the end of the second week of classes. The instructor meets with the student regularly, typically for an hour a week, and the student writes a final paper or a series of short essays. May be elected for one or two terms.
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