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Post-slavery black life and thought, as well as race relations and social change, during Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and contemporary times; ethical concepts and issues on human justice in the course of struggles for democracy, tolerance, and equality. Instructor: Gavins
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An interdisciplinary examination of contemporary educational problems in American cities, with particular attention to race and class, and the formation of public policy for urban schools and school reform. Instructor: Payne
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The politics of four of the United States principal racial minority groups -- blacks, Latinos, Asians, and American Indians. Instructor: McClain
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The politics of four of the United States principal racial minority groups -- blacks, Latinos, Asians, and American Indians. Instruction is provided in two lectures and one small discussion meeting each week. Instructor: McClain
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Diasporic religious expression and practice, from Africa to the Americas. Special attention to the relationship between religion and history, both during slavery and beyond, as well as to the social, gendered, aesthetic, and more strictly religious forces that lie at the heart of Black diasporic religious expression. Instructor: Staff
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Examines both scholarly and popular representations of Atlantic slave trade in Africa and the diaspora. Uses first-person narratives, scholarly texts, documentaries, novels and films to debate African agency in slave trade, effects of slave trade on the New World and Europe, nature of slave life, slave resistance, and causes of abolition. Explores role of slavery in collective memory, public history, and contemporary politics. Instructor: Holsey
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Survey of traditional African religions. Explores the various expressions of religion by African slaves and their descendants in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Central focus on the engagement of African in America with Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Instructor: Peters
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Seminar version of 153A. Instructor: Peters
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Examination of competing tendencies in modern society across cultural contexts and historical time periods concluding with close attention to the present: the secularism linked to increased rationalization (and the rise of the modern state), and persistence of beliefs in the supernatural. Readings on beliefs in magic and the occult drawing attention to overlap between magical phenomena and the workings of capitalism in our contemporary world. Several short response papers and a final project (written, performed, filmed). Instructor: Makhulu
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Explores origins and causes of differences in patterns of economic performance between ethnic and racial groups from a comparative perspective across the globe. Consideration of a variety of accounts for wide disparities in incidence of poverty and affluence across ascriptively differentiated groups, with particular attention to economic problems in ethnically or racially plural societies and use of various social policies to redress intergroup inequalities, including Malaysia's New Economic Policy, India's reservations system for scheduled castes, and affirmative action in U.S. and South Africa. Instructor: Darity
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