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4.00 Credits
An introduction to African politics. The course will focus on the basic concepts, issues, and theoretical models used in studies of the dynamics of government and politics in Africa from the pre-colonial era to the contemporary period.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the study of Black family life in Africa and its Diaspora. Special attention will be given to the ways in which values and patterns of living and thought are communicated across generations (time) and transported across geography (space).
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4.00 Credits
This course aims to examine texts written on Muslim women by themselve, by non-Muslim women and by Muslim men. Several questions are raised by the subject itself. One such question focuses on what is intrinsically Islamic with respect to ideas about women and gender. Another question centers on what is the model Muslim woman given the diversity of cultural manifestations of Islam. This course emerges from these questions and others exploring who is writing what about Muslim women, for what audience.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the role of religion and culture in the lives of women in Africa, introducing students to an "emic" (insider) interpretation of beliefs and practices of the triple religious heritage (Indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam), and critically evaluating their implications for women.
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4.00 Credits
History, development, and social context of African American popular culture. Texts to be critiques come from music, television, fiction, games, humor, sport, and/or radio.
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4.00 Credits
This course, which varies from quarter to quarter, explores issues stemming from our being gendered and racialized subjects and examines the values underlying a variety of issues.
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4.00 Credits
This course is part of a longitudinal research project titled The Black Metropolis: The Last Half-Century. The Black Metropolis Project (BMP) is an effort to examine changes in the original 'black belt' of Chicago since the publication of St. Clair Drake and Horace Caytons' monumental study of the Black Metropolis (1945). The BMP is part of a yearlong course sequence that offers a platform of three interrelated chronological time periods: 1890-1945 Black Metropolis I, 1945-1975 Black Metropolis II, and the period 1975- to the present Black Metropolis III. Through historical and contemporary readings, class discussions, student exercises and training, field experiences and student cooperative service learning activities the course will examine key events, circumstances, and situations.
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4.00 Credits
Where is Africa In Spain, Africa is said to "begin in the Pyrenees"; in Italy, to begin in Naples. Recent scholarship argues that Africa is not limited to geography, but is found in the traditions and identities of many Caribbean peoples. After reviewing models of how Africa has been conceived of by Europeans from antiquity to the present, we will examine how Africans and their descendants have resisted these definitions, or used them, while struggling for self-determination. Topics include the cultural impact of Africans in Europe: ethnic identity of Africans in the Caribbean; organized resistance to American slavery; and Pan-Africanism.
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4.00 Credits
The upper level course will interrogate the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of people in the African diaspora. We will examine the contributions of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals, including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, in the formation of diasporic movements and Pan-African thought. We will ask, to what degree was the ideology of Pan-Africanism and the iconography of Africa employed to mobilize masses of black people around local and domestic issues How important has a consciousness of Africa been to the construction of cultural identities in the diaspora, and how have class, gender, and race shaped or constrained those identities Our goal is to develop furthur insights into the ways in which people of the African diaspora have continually reinvented and imagined the home of their ancestors, in turn reinventing and imaging themselves.
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4.00 Credits
This course studies the science fiction by Black writers as well as critical responses to these novels and writers. The course explores the treatment of gender, oppression and empowerment, historical implications (past, present, future) of the middle passage, chattel slavery, and the struggle for freeedom.
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