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4.00 Credits
Topics include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of freedom; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the Civil War; Reconstruction; African Americans in the Jim Crow South; and the Great Migration. Thematically, we explore the meaning of freedom, the dynamic between black struggle and white resistance, and the ways in which factors like gender and geography complicated any notions of a single black experience.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore how the intersection of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in the early cinema of Spike Lee works to give his social vision and artistic temper the qualities now commonly associated with his cinematic style. Race seems to be the central pivot of social identity in Lee's films, but in this course we will explore his remarkable attentiveness to other indices of identity and subjectivity. We will pay special attention to the tension between Lee's passionate oppositional politics and his intensely personal, experimental, and playful approach to film and its expressive idioms, techniques, and styles. Films to be studied include "She's Gotta Have It," "School Daze," "Do the Right Thing," "Mo Better Blues," and "Jungle Fever".
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4.00 Credits
Traditional rhetoric assumes that orator and public, writer and reader, share the same cultural references and values. Therefore a master of language arts assumes a cultural continuity with his or her audience. But minority writers, by definition, cannot assume continuity with the majority of readers and therefore the tropes, strategies, and styles developed in "mixed company" are significantly different from those we have learned to expect. These stylistic differences, which mark cultural distances, make ethnically marked writing distinctive. It often teases readers with promises of intimate unveiling and then turns the page onto a freshly felt distance. As Toni Morrison says about her own writing, "it slaps and embraces". Primary texts include: Royal Commentaries by el Inca Garcilaso; Song of Myself by Walt Whitman; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Cecilia Valdes by Cirilo Villaverde; Sab by Getrudis Gomez de Avellaneda; Autobiography of a Slave by Juan Francisco Manzano; Riboberta Menchu; and The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the writings of Du Bois, with a focus on his social theory and political philosophy. In addition to various journal articles and editorials from The Crisis, texts to be examined include The Philadelphia Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater, Black Reconstruction in America, and Dusk of Dawn.
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4.00 Credits
Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Sejour, Lydia Maria Child, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) "Post-bellum, pre-Harlem": Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. We examine diverse genres-from slave narratives, novels, and poems to plays, speeches, and song lyrics.
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4.00 Credits
Since Emancipation African American religious leaders and their congregants have employed religion not only as a means of achieving social and political mobility, but also as a means of securing economic growth and independence in light of the conditions created under American capitalism. These approaches have varied from the pragmatic strategies of Booker T. Washington, the socialist leanings of Rev. George Washington Woodbey, the "poor people's campaign" of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the increasingly popular prosperity ministries of today's neo-Pentecostal and Word of Faith communities. Such changes in strategies often coincide with changes in America's political economy over the past century. This course attempts to interrogate the development of these various strands of economic thought using texts by scholars like Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), E. Franklin Frazier (The Black Bourgeoisie), and David Harvey (An Introduction to Neoliberalism) as anchoring texts to frame the social, economic and political contexts in which these strategies emerge. Other texts, including autobiographies, ethnographies, and histories offer details of how these religious understandings are framed and practiced.
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4.00 Credits
In the historic contexts of the civil rights struggles in the United States and the decolonizing liberation struggles in Africa and the Caribbean, this course explores how utopian or emancipatory aspirations in diverse media like literature, popular music, oratory, non-scripted street or community theatre, and popular visual media like poster art, murals, and graffiti impact people of different social classes and backgrounds.
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4.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to explore the wide range of issues affecting educational policy and classroom practice in multicultural settings. This course explores linguistic diversity among children and young adults in school and social and cultural settings. In particular it reviews and analyzes African American English in educational settings. It examines several theories and texts about language, race, education, and youth culture. It explores youth language in public and urban settings, and educational and literacy issues and controversies. Lectures and assignments will focus on African American English, creole languages, bilingualism, and youth culture. This course is ideal for those who want to teach in urban areas and those interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse. General topics include language and culture, linguistics, soiciolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, discourse, and interaction.
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4.00 Credits
This course simultaneously analyzes the cultural and social aspects of hiphop that both reflect and challenge our world. This course will explore and evaluate the most compelling thinking and research pertaining to hiphop and the youth and institutions that continue to build and represent hiphop culture. Since the 1990s several important scholars have engaged in dialogue about the importance of hiphop. Geneva Smitherman and Walter Edwards examined the linguistic creativity of hiphop and its influence on African American English and Global varieties and discourse. The first amendment free speech issues like that associated with the group 2 Live Crew that drew the public comments of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, Jr., who were then academic stars and rising public intellectuals also dominated the 1990s. Both bell hooks (1993, 1994) and Angela Davis (1993) had conversations about politics and feminism with Ice Cube, formerly of NWA in the 1990s. The significance of hiphop in African American culture was also addressed by the philosopher Cornel West (1993), historian Robin G. Kelley (1996, 1997), political scientist Michael Dawson (1997), and sociologist Paul Gilroy (1994), who celebrated and critiqued the impact of the relentless and often problematic images, philosophies, and personas materializing in hiphop culture. The course will examine all of these issues and more.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to basic concepts of speech communities and qualitative methods in the social sciences including ethnographic fieldwork and the analysis of face-to-face communication. It focuses on the details of everyday activities across communities of African descent and other communities and interactive environments. It is meant to provide a bridge between communications, the social sciences, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology through the introduction of concepts and analytical techniques that privilege observation, participation, video recording, and transcription of spontaneous interaction (as opposed to experimental tasks or introspection). Topics include language socialization, education, literacy, music and the visual arts, the power of language, miscommunication, and universal and culture-specific properties of human communication.
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