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The production and circulation of African American popular cultural forms including, but not limited to, popular literature, music, film, television, and art in the twentieth century. The ways in which African American popular culture may reflect the particular values and ethos of African Americans and the larger American society. Topics may include black cinema, blues and jazz music, black nationalism, hip hop, black social movements, blacks and sports culture, popular dance, and the cultural history of black style. Instructor: Lubiano, Wallace, and staff
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Interpretations of the black diaspora in documentary film from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary study of black religions, cultures, histories, aesthetics, politics, and their representations, both globally and in the U.S. Students will view and study a variety of films and approaches to film and study film's evolution through numerous lenses from early ethnographic film to recent works by indigenous filmmakers, and understand the politics of representation, from D.W. Griffith to Spike Lee; read relevant works in the genres represented; and hear from guest critics, scholars of African and African American history and culture, and filmmakers. Instructor: James
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Focuses on children and families as they are shaped and impacted by race, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and community/neighborhood context. Aspects considered include: parental beliefs, expectations, disciplinary strategies, children's mental health and academic and career goals. Prerequisite: Psychology 103(RE), formerly Psychology 97, recommended. Instructor: Hill or staff
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Contemporary fiction of black women writers from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Representations of cultural and national identities, patterns of language, figurative representations, and the revisioned histories as structured and framed within imaginative literatures. Issues of colonialism and slavery as background. Instructor: Holloway
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The history of African American women in the United States. The production of discourses of gender, race, and class discrimination that evolved specifically to confront the presence of African American women first as slaves and later as free women. The ways in which prevalent ideas about race, race relations, and gender coalesced around images of the African American women and African American women's struggles to assert independent identities. Multidisciplinary readings. Instructor: Glymph
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Modern literature in French from French-speaking Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include tradition and modernity; colonization, cultural assimilation, and the search for identity; and women in changing contexts. Instructor: Staff
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Taught in Portuguese, with texts in Portuguese and English, the course integrates visiting lectures and readings with experience and on-site research into popular culture, cultural activism and social movements. Begins with readings and discussion of concepts and history of citizenship and cultural activism in Brazil, then centers on specific issues or movements. (ex: social entrepreneurship and peripheral cultures; AIDS education; performing arts and favela activism)
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Explore race and culture in America through texts of Black playwrights. Scene study by racially diverse class to engender feedback process. Juxtaposition of playwright's race to societal standards of universal content; relevance of actor's race to playwright's intent; historical context of Black Arts "militant" plays of the 1960s-70s. Workshop culminates in public performance. Instructor: O'Berski
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Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism; folk-concepts of race; and the political and economic causes of racism; ethics of racism. Instructor: Staff
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African, European, and Indian interactions; the black experience of slavery and racism; the evolution of Afro-American culture, resistance, and the general emancipation; ethical concepts and issues on human justice in the course of racial oppression and freedom struggle. Instructor: Gavins
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