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Central outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement, 1968 to the present; critical reading and discussion, research and writing on racial and social equality and inequality in major areas of American life, notably electoral politics; education; religion and ethics; and public culture. Instructor: Gavins
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Critical examination of racial, cultural, and social influences on development of African American children in the U.S. Traditional and nontraditional theoretical and empirical approaches; issues surrounding children's cognitive, language, and psychosocial development, plus educational attainment explored from a socio-cultural perspective. Includes discussion of racial stereotypes, familial interactions, social policy, the media, and peer groups. Prerequisites: Introductory Psych, Developmental, Human Development, Research Methods courses. Juniors and Seniors only. Instructor: Wilbourn
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The African diapora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from the "shotgun" houses of New Orleans to the urban graffiti of NYC. The course surveys several major cultural groups in West and Central Africa and their aesthetic impact on the arts, religions, and philosophies of peoples of African descent in South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Instructor: Powell
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The development of the slave trade from the fifteenth century to its abolition in the nineteenth century; organization and mechanics, impact on Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Instructor: Gaspar
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Examine cultural influences of food, linking class, geography, ethnicity to food practices. Investigates link between overeating and cheap food, under-eating and expensive food; discrepancy between cost and quality; changing diets in US and elsewhere; current debates regarding food production, specifically in the U.S., Americas, Africa and Asia. Discussion of Cargill companies¿ restrictions on spread of their hybrid grains; questionable agricultural practices, e.g. animal cruelty, overuse of pesticides, condition of migrants. Environmental policies examined in relation to pursuit of such industrial agricultural practices. Will include hands-on experiments with food preparation and tasting. Instructor: Crichlow
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Slavery and the post-emancipation trajectory of Afro-Brazilians in a racist society which officially proclaims itself a "racial democracy." Comparisons drawn with the Afro-American experience elsewhere in Latin America and the United States. Instructor: French
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The South African political system in the twentieth century with particular attention to the transition from apartheid and white minority rule to nonracial democracy. Instructor: Johns
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Oral and literary traditions from the American colonial period into the nineteenth century, including spiritual as lyric poetry and the slave narrative as autobiography. Not open to students who have taken the former English 167. Satisfies Area II requirement for the English major. Instructor: Staff
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Continuation of English 164A. The late nineteenth century to contemporary writers. Not open to students who have taken the former English 168. Satisfies the Area III requirement for English majors. Instructor: Staff
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Major historic efforts of the republic to establish legal equality for former slaves and their descendants<197>the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Modern-day controversies over race and equality. Efforts of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon under the rubric of ''affirmative action.'' Fair-employment approaches ranging from ''casting a wider net'' to ''goals and timetables'' to overt or tacit quotas as well as voter-equality schemes from at-large elections to racial ''gerrymandering'' to cumulative voting. Desegregation and integration as competing ideals; actual and proposed remedies for unfairness. Instructor: Staff
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