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3.00 Credits
The globalization of Africa within the context of Arab and European expansion. Historical flashpoints and contemporary events. The invention of Africa in literary and political discourses. The geopolitics of aid and development. Africa’s relationship with the African diaspora, including modern migrations and debates on the racial and geographic divide between Arab regions north and south of the Sahara.
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3.00 Credits
Constructed images of black masculinity, femininity, and sexuality in popular culture. Social political hierarchies in society at-large.
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3.00 Credits
Scholarly, political, and cultural interpretations. From slavery to family life in the post-Civil War South to urban, northern, and western migration, and finally to the postindustrial city at the end of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Detective fiction in America, beginning with Edgar Allan Poe, the founder of the genre in the American literary tradition, and continuing on with such black writers as Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Paula Wood, and Pamela Thomas-Graham.
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3.00 Credits
Black diaspora participation in American wars, with special attention to slavery and questions of race in the American Revolution and Civil War. Military conflicts in Africa in the modern era in which ethnic and religious differences were reconceived as issues of race.
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3.00 Credits
The Saint-Domingue Revolution from 1791 to 1803 and the development of Haiti from 1804 to the present. Haiti in global context; the revolution as a key moment in the Age of Revolution and the formation of the Black International. Historical monographs, novels, poetry, visual culture, and music.
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3.00 Credits
Distinctions between Southern food and soul food. Soul food as performance and projection of gender and racial identity. Cookbooks as literary artifacts. Soul food in American popular culture, and in African American, Southern, and women’s writing. Soul food and community formation. Serves as repeat credit for students who have completed 265W and for students who completed ENGL 288W in fall 2010.
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3.00 Credits
Historical and contemporary debates, perceptions, and attitudes. Public policy debates surrounding disparate incarceration rates and sentencing, policing, racial profiling. Social imagery, "down low" homosexuality, criminality, hypersexuality, and athleticism.
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3.00 Credits
Race, ethnicity, gender, class and their relationships to both the broader roles of schooling and education in American society. Historical foundation of education for African Americans, educational and socioeconomic inequality, family structures, and social policy initiatives.
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3.00 Credits
African and Caribbean cultures of colonialism. Forms of decolonization and the predicament of neocolonialism from the emergence of capitalism to the present. The historical and anthropological projects of empire and race-making. Causes and strategies of expansion. Forms of representation and knowledge production. Discourses around intimacy, illness and hygiene. Practices of coercion and violence.
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