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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as POLS 3172. Prerequisite: 3000 level course on Africa from AFRS, POLS, or HIST. Analysis of competing ideologies in African American political philosophy. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the manifestations of Caribbean economic problems and policies and Caribbean political development from the post war period to the present. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relationships among African and African Diaspora folktales, folk beliefs, customs, legends, myths, proverbs, poetry, songs, performance, narratives, symbols, and social practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course will identify parallel tales and verbal and performance arts in the Mother Continent and the Diaspora and also study how geographical environments and historical experiences have impacted new manifestations of African folklore. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as SOCY 3210 and LTAM 3110. This course is designed to acquaint students with historical and contemporary experiences of peoples of African descent in the Caribbean and Latin American countries with specific emphasis on family structure and family relationships. Includes discussion of theories, history, impact of globalization on family structure, roles of women and identity, socioeconomic status and mobility, slavery, colonialism, and capitalism. The course is designed to provide students with a better understanding of the comparative relationships and links between family structures and common life experiences among peoples of African descent in different parts of the world, with specific emphasis on the Caribbean and Latin American regions. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as HIST 3218. This course examines the ways in which African-Americans and Whites used violence both as part of struggles for liberation and freedom as well as repression from the colonial period to the present in the United States. The focus will be on broader processes of social, political, and cultural change and at efforts to build cooperation. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as LTAM 3220 and HIST 3180. Covering the sweep of history from European/indigenous contact, through the construction of a plantation regime based on African slave labor, and up to the present day, this class explores the spread of colonialism, the dynamics of slavery, and the tumult of abolition and national independence movements. The Caribbean Sea will be examined as a region, emphasizing the ties uniting the islands and the circum-Caribbean coasts. The region's past - including empire and imperial conflict, racial oppression and interaction, and international contact - and its legacies will be discussed in relation to political economics, race, and contemporary culture. (On demand
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3.00 Credits
Socio-economic roots of poverty and discrimination in African America, the Caribbean, and Afro-Latin America; impact of anti-poverty and anti-discrimination laws and programs. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as HIST 3240. This course explores the unique role law has played in the African American experience, establishing the status of persons of African descent in America. Students will investigate how the legal history of African Americans has shaped American race relations over the past 400 years by tracing the evolution of race, racism, and racial formations as a function of America's legal system. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the problems and issues affecting the economic base and human security of African Americans and their role in the US economy. (On demand)
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted as LTAM 3260 and HIST 3190. This course is designed to explore how race and racism, slavery, and colonialism served as principal institutions and constructs shaping the experience between Africa and the emerging African Diaspora in the New World. Students will consider how the maintenance of Western social, economic, and political superiority materialized as functions of these three important historical developments. (On demand)
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