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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Foundations of African American culture from ancient African history and through contemporary issues in the African American experience and the larger diaspora. The characteristics, developments, and dynamics of diaspora culture in the Americas, with a particular focus on the United States.
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1790 to the mid-twentieth century. Slave politics and abolition, the meaning of freedom after emancipation, black workers’ struggle for democracy and citizenship. Resistance to empire and colonialism, migration, race and color ideology, religion, and culture.
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3.00 Credits
Race and racism in the United States and their impact on democratic practices. General intellectual and cultural manifestations of the significance of race and how it influences democratic reform: racial preferences, the prison industrial complex, national security, HIV/AIDS, and elections.
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3.00 Credits
Independent learning and inquiry in an environment in which students can express knowledge and defend opinions through intensive class discussion, oral presentations, and written expression. May be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication of topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits in any 115F course per semester of enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to feminism in multiple diasporic places and communities. Comparison of black feminisms across time and space.
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3.00 Credits
Distinctive cultural forms and patterns in the Caribbean basin from the 16th century to the present. Empha- sis on the diverse origins of Caribbean culture. Slave society’s impact on cultural production.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural, economic, and social aspects of the African slave trade into the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries. Transformation of the slave trade as a result of abolition and suppression.
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3.00 Credits
Oppositional cinematic practices of black filmmakers. Hollywood representations of blacks. The theoretical language of film criticism, styles, genres, periods.
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3.00 Credits
History of African American migration patterns when involuntarily under duress, or with a sense of possibility and optimism. Including Middle Passage, the Great Migration north, and other countries.
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3.00 Credits
The impact of migration in a post-civil rights and post-colonial world. Political tensions, identity politics, and solidarity. Comparative anthropological and sociological narratives on race, culture, and ethnicity. Countries and regions include Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania, parts of Asia, and the U.S.
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