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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine concepts of courtship and romantic love among African Americans to assess the central roles that race, gender, class and social forces played in the most private, and intimate, of matters. Students will assess the importance of "love" as a social construct among African Americans and how expressions of it complement or diverge from Euro-American conceptions.
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3.00 Credits
Black American history from West Africa to 1865, emphasizing the role of black leaders and their struggle against racial segregation and oppression.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the history of black Americans from the Civil War to the present, emphasizing the role of black leaders, the struggle against oppression, and the evolution of race relations.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the micro-level and institutional intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality as articulated by African American women intellectuals from the 19th century to present with particular emphasis on social scientific theory and methodology. Topics include: early black feminist thought; comparisons of black and white women's feminisms; third-wave black feminist thought; sexuality, the body, and hip-hop.
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Examination of theory, practice, and tradition of documentary field research, including the use of photography, film and video, and tape recorders. Special emphasis on documentary study of the American South.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the blues in all its myriad social and cultural roles and contexts, using the anthropological models and approaches of the oral and musical arts, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, religion, and ritual analysis among others.
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3.00 Credits
Begins with the oral tradition in Africa and continues with the evolution in form from slave narrations to autobiographies and novels; the incorporation of folk and popular materials into formal literature, and the idea of a literary tradition. Writers include Wheatley, Hammon, Equiano, Brown, Douglass, DuBois, Chesnutt, Dunbar, and Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
Covers modern African American literature, concentrating on poetry and the novel. Attention to modern uses of folk materials; criticism and aesthetic movements, problems in form, audience, genre; politics and the writer with focus on the emergence of African American female writers in contemporary literature. Selected works by Brown, Hurston, Hughes, Toomer, Wright, Ellison, Walker, Morrison, and selected playwrights.
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3.00 Credits
Explores important themes from the perspectives of historical, cultural, and social/behavioral studies. Topics will vary.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students do departmentally approved course work at a foreign university. May be repeated with permission of director of the African American Studies program.
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