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3.00 Credits
Examination of competing explanations of urban politics. Topics include immigration, melting-pot thesis, racial formation, world system analysis, globalization and segmented labor theory. Exploration of extent to which American cities have been receptive or hostile to recent immigrants/migrants. Prerequisites: PLSC 111.
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Exploration of the development of the novel in Africa. Formal growth of the genre from the oral narrative traditions of the continent, through its attachment to European forms, to its present achievement in blending various traditions in the articulation of key issues ù such as colonialism and post-colonialism, social and political crisis, and the role of women ù in contemporary African society.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of evolution and development of selected Asian (Middle Eastern) and African Muslim societies from seventh to 19th century. Social structure institutions and concepts of Muslim societies. Prerequisites: at least sophomore standing. Recommended prerequisites: completion of basic course in history, sociology or anthropology.
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3.00 Credits
Course divided into two parts. Part I, survey of West African history, deals with social-political organization; trade; religion; kingdoms/empires/states; interstate and interregional relations; relations with Asia, Europe and Americas. Part II focuses on Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal, and deals with servility/slavery; ethnic relations; education; women's activities; colonial impact; government; post-independence relations with selected Eastern and Western states and organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Looks critically at the African view of the universe and the principles that help shape the metaphysical and mundane worlds. Far from dualism, African conception of the universe also reflects their view of a holistic personality. Thus, students are introduced to the intellectual debate on race and society, politics, religion, metaphysics and the ultimate meaning of existence. Prerequisite: AFST 280E, Intro. to African Religions, or any 100- or 200-level Africana Studies course.
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3.00 Credits
Specialized and advanced topics in the literature of black peoples: Harlem Renaissance, African women writers, black novelists, etc. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Meets special needs and interests of advanced students on tutorial or seminar basis. Prerequisites: consent of instructor. var. cr.
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3.00 Credits
Critically examines how and why the 20th century's African American struggle for both civil and human rights had its origins in the post-Reconstruction era as these New World Africans began devising innovative strategies to challenge their political, economic, social and racial subordination. Compares and contrasts a range of strategies, including bourgeois reformism and divergent forms of black nationalism, with Pan-Africanism and the global black radical projects undertaken during the first and second Reconstruction eras. Through an examination of African Americans' contestation and engaging of globalization, democratization and empire. Analyzes their efforts to transform the power relations and structures that govern human rights practices, racial capitalism and global apartheid international regimes supported by the U.S.
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3.00 Credits
Historical and contemporary theories of liberation expounded by theoreticians from an Afrocentric perspective; pan-pigmentationism theories and political movements concerned with questions of slavery, colonialism and racial oppression; pan-proletarianism theories and political movements concerned with questions of economic justice within countries and worldwide. Prerequisites: one course in comparative or international politics.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced general survey and analysis of critical problems in Africana studies. Prerequisites: senior standing.
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