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3.00 Credits
See course description in the History Department.
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3.00 Credits
This course has as its focus Cuba's foreign and domestic policies since the revolution. Because Cuba is, in Fidel Castro's words, a "Latin African" country, some attention will be focused on the issue of race and the revolution in Cuba. Likewise, the history of Cuba's policies in Africa and the Caribbean will be looked at closely. It is, however, not a traditional course in diplomatic history. It explores the interface between domestic and foreign policy throughout, relating this to the specific case of Cuba since 1959.
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3.00 Credits
Over 90 percent of slaves imported into the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade were brought to the Caribbean Islands and South America. The Caribbean Islands received 42.2 percent of the total slave imports and South America 49.1 percent. Among the topics covered are the rise and fall of slavery, the economics of slave trading, slave demography, patterns of slave life, slave laws, slave resistance, slave culture, social structure and the roles of the freed people. The compass of the course embraces a variety of English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch speaking countries and a comprehensive approach.
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3.00 Credits
African American drama narrates the stories of Black Americans as they have worked to establish autonomy in the US. This theatre has focused a magnifying lens on the traumas and triumphs of African Americans. The course will examine how African American playwrights have used drama to mourn, to celebrate and to scrutinize history and to create new possibilities. We will discuss playwrights such as Willis Richardson, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Students will attend local productions, read extensively, engage in independent research and participate in group presentations.
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3.00 Credits
From the literary classic The Great Gatsby to the current television drama Mad Men, American culture contains countless examples of characters who discard or disguise their identities to create themselves anew. In ethnic literature, African Americans pass for white, while immigrants transform themselves into Americans. In theater and Hollywood cinema, whites wear blackface, while men cross-dress as women. By examining the literary and cinematic techniques of various narratives of self-making, this course will ask how such transformations and performances of identity inform our understandings of race, class, sex, gender, and national identity from the nineteenth century through the present day.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of masculinity in the United States from the colonial era to the late twentieth century. It explores how men and women have constructed ideas of manhood; how those ideas have been shaped by other categories of identity - such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and region; and how men have performed their identities as gendered beings. This course will examine the ways in which masculinity has been historically constituted in the United States and how men and women of varying backgrounds have affermed, contested, and/or disrupted these historically-constituted meanings of manhood.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores literature of the African Diaspora, while concentrating on the sub-division called "African Americana." Accordingly we will read productions that cover a range of genres from fiction, to poetry, to film and advertisements, with the intention of discovering what literature tells us about how racial ideologies work in practice.
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3.00 Credits
What do contemporary discussions of race look like when depicted in popular literature written by African Diaspora writers? Students address this question by examining horror, science fiction, mystery literatures, and urban romances to determine how each form represents concerns of twentieth/twenty-first century black peoples in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Our focus on these literatures' explorations of race is complemented by historical and sociological studies of these countries. Writers central to this examination are: Octavia Butler, Patrick Chamoiseau, Colin Channer, E. Lynn Harris, Terry McMillan, and Walter Mosley.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides a critical perspective on current issues and problems in American racism, sexism, heterosexism, ablism, and ageism. These issues and problems are studied in the context of the dynamics of social process, historical and anthropological perspectives, and theories of prejudice and social change. Social work's responsibility to contribute to solutions is emphasized. Different models for examining the issues of race, sex, sexual orientation, age and ability are presented.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study the Civil War and the Age of Reconstruction, paying special attention to the transformation of American politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. We will examine the conflict between North and South from a number of perspectives: military, social, and cultural. In addition, the course will consider the struggles of Reconstruction and the legacies of emancipation.
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