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4.00 Credits
Cross-Cultural Study of self-discovery and identity as manifested in the literatures of self-awareness and self-definition. Authors to be studied include: Michael Anthony, Frantz Fanon, Jamaica Kincaid, george Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Jane Rhys.
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Covers the problems of reunion between the North and the South after the Civil War, including the struggle for African-Americans' civil and political rights, the transition to a free labor economy in the South, and the eventual end of reconstruction and establishment of racial segregation in the South and the nation. Prerequisite: HST 199 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the struggles of African Americans and women, as individuals who were excluded from the franchise on the basis of their being an African American, a woman, or both, to gain access to the ballot. The relation of women and African Americans to the ballot is worthy of investigation for two reasons. First, with the exception of 18 year olds, women and Black Americans are the two groups who have required amanedments to the Constitution to secure their right to vote. Second, they share a history, often contentious, of political struggle. In addition, the course will investigate what this history of political struggle can tell us about American law, politics, and society.
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4.00 Credits
This course engages the research and analyses in the field of public law - how do political scientists, public policy analysts and others develop informed public policy and law. Topics vary from year to year.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of women's experience as a primary resource and norm for theology, focusing on themes of inclusion, exclusion, representation and liberation in particular social, political and historical contexts.
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4.00 Credits
Selected novels and short fiction by twentieth-century African-American writers.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of Black poetry and drama from 1865 to the present.
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4.00 Credits
African-American Poetry 1940 - 1960
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4.00 Credits
A media analysis course that will analyze media coverage of African Americans from the 19th century to the present. Through lectures, guest speakers, readings and research, students will probe the ways in which the media has inlfuenced and dictate the perceptions and destinies of African Americans, as well as its impact on America's ongoing challenge, as W.E. DuBois put it more than a century ago, to "conquer the color line."
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4.00 Credits
This course engages with the multiple versions of woman-centered theory and practice developed in the writings; activism, and other creative work of Black, particularly African American women, from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. While not all of these theorists would use the word <> all have in common the aim of empowering women's lives, advocating for women for equal economic, political, and cultural access.
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