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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history, theoretical foundations, ideologies and major works in Africana Studies
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3.00 Credits
A multidisciplinary introduction to the range of research methods employed to examine Africana history, cultures, and societies. This course involves a number of guest speakers (most UD faculty in or affiliated with the Africana Studies Department). PREREQ: AFRA600
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze the long and varied quest for freedom and citizenship waged by African Americans during the long twentieth century. Specifically, we will read scholarship produced primarily within the last decade to examine African American cultures and communities of resistance (with particular attention paid to issues of gender, color, and class) from Reconstruction to the present. While the course designed to introduce students to historical methodologies and historiographical debates, it also incorporates scholarship in other disciplines to encourage students to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African American life.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate readings course seeks to expose students to the different conceptual frameworks and methodologies scholars have used to examine expressive cultures in the African Diaspora from the post-emancipation period until the present. The course will examine various forms of "expressive culture" including adornment practices, beauty culture, performance, music, dance, sport, and photography. In addition, the course will highlight the crucial intersections among these expressive cultures and major social and political movements in post-emancipation era Afro-diasporic communities. While the course is designed for historians, it explicitly incorporates scholarship in other disciplines to encourage students to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Afro-diasporic expressive culture. In this manner, students will be encouraged to tackle the following semester-long challenge: How can scholars productively employ interdisciplinary approaches to the histories of Afro-diasporic cultural production? Thus, the class invites students to familiarize themselves with the distinct, yet interconnected scholarship on Afro-diasporic cultural production in a manner that highlights the movement of cultural practices across the Americas.
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3.00 Credits
This course will interrogate how Black identity shapes conceptions of womanhood and manhood over space and time. In particular, we will examine the varied ways that Black people have defined, understood, and challenged individual and communal notions of femininity and masculinity. In doing so, we will consider how a gendered analysis shapes our understanding of family, power, sexuality, activism, and resistance. Focusing on a range of scholarly interventions from classic as well as recent texts, we will explore major themes and developments in the interpretation of Black gender history. While the course is designed for historians, it explicitly incorporates scholarship in other disciplines to encourage students to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Black life.
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3.00 Credits
Black portraiture is everywhere-museum archives, the White House, the cover of Vanity Fair, and the University of Delaware. Looking to the past, present, and the University of Delaware's Paul R. Jones collection, you will examine the evolution and recent popularity of the black portrait. You will also investigate how artists of African descent have changed the conventions of portraiture and ideas about picturing the self. What do we expect a portrait to do? What is "black" about "the black portrait? You will answer these and other questions in this seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces various colonial policies of the European powers in Africa, emphasizing the comparisons and contrasts among these policies. Attention paid to the effect of Colonialism on Africa's economic, social and political development.
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3.00 Credits
The complex and performative nature of museums vis-a-vis race, remembrance and reconciliation with a focus on Black American and African Diasporic history and culture. What role[s] do objects, history, and culture perform under such curatorial and museum mandates and visions? How do changing socio-political and cultural landscapes and challenges to representational politics shape museum practices? Considered here are black cultural institutions, their formation and foundation as well as exhibition histories of black visual art and culture.
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