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4.00 Credits
This survey course examines the history of the aesthetic thought that has emerged from the minds of Black creative intellectuals in the United States and globally. Figures to be examined might include: Du Bois, Locke, Hughes, Johnson, Hurston, James, Baraka, Piper, hooks, Julien, Mercer, and Wallace.
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course will examine the diasporic literary and cultural movements known as the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance and the Negritude Movement in literature, music, and visual arts. Specific attention will be given to the historical, economic, and political aspects which helped to form these movements. Figures to be examined include: Du Bois, Hughes, Locke, Larsen, Douglas, Cullen, Cesaire, Damas and Senghor.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the patterns of philosophical thinking form the African continent. Cross-listed with PHL 239.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the dynamics of African religions throughout the Diaspora and the Atlantic world. It will pay particular attention to the variety of historical experiences and sacred institiutions of those of African descent. Questions of the course include: how were these religions and their communities created ; how have they survived ; and how are African-based traditions perpetuated through ritual, song, dance, drumming, and healing practices Specific attention will be given to one or more of the following: Yoruba religion and its New World offspring, Santeria, Voodoo and Candomble; Africanisms in American religion; gospel music; Islam; urban religions; and/or Vodun and Voodoo.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines fiction and criticism with the purpose of studying how African woman configure themselves in literature and how they (re)define feminist theory. Authors to be studied include include: El Saadawi, Emecheta, Alkali, Nzapa, Head, Ngcobo Lessing: Gordimer; Aidoo; Ba, and Joyce.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines various ways in which race is constructed and, concurrently, how race as a "fiction" operates in literary studies. Literature presents and explores the ways in which the world is viewed and experienced by individuals in a particular society or social group. Since literature provides unique insights into different historical and cultural movements, studying how race is understood and deployed (explicitly and implicitly) in a text provides a powerful way to examine the fluidity of race and to compare how it is understood in different parts of the Black diaspora.
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4.00 Credits
This introductory-level course surveys the arts of select cultures from west and central Africa. The course will focus on the arts of royalty as a means by which to introduce basic concepts and larger issues within the field. The arts of groups who borrow from royal iconography, such as diviners, religious cults, societies of elders, and others, will also be investigated. Themes pertinent throughout the course include issues of gender, colonialism, cultural interaction, and historical change in both visual art and the nature of kingship. Cross-listed as HAA 101.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the role jazz has played in the cultural imaginations of peoples across the African Diaspora. What does jazz symbolize for authors and artists, and how have they adapted jazz to fit their own aesthetic, ideological, and political needs How has it been used to influence poetry, drama, visual art, film, fiction, and dance What are the different ways in which 'jazz' (itself a problematic and multifaceted term) has been manipulated Figures to be examined might include: Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite, Sonia Sanchez, Romare Bearden, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Murray, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Nicholas Guillen and Bob Kaufman.
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4.00 Credits
In the Caribbean, music is tied to national identity: Jamaican reggae, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, Haitian compass, Brazilian samba, Dominican merengue. But how did a Cuban rhythm derived from the Kongo become thought of as a Spanish habanera How did a related Kongo-derived rhythm popularized by Cuban sailors become the Argentine tango By exploring genres of Caribbean music, we will learn about human and cultural migrations in the Caribbean, and the tremendous influence of music in national identity. Focus will be on African-derived forms in Cuba.
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4.00 Credits
This is a survey of global refugee crisis and internal displacement between 1945 and the present. The course will focus on the following issues and challenges: human rights, definitions and causes of crisis, internal/external displacements, 'environmental' refugees, protection and integration, refugee children, and conflict resolutions in post-war societies.
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