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3.00 Credits
This course will examine works produced by Black women authors, activists, filmmakers and musical performers in order to determine the methods they have incorporated in order to challenge and eradicate the prevailing stereotypes about Black women while advancing their own personal and racial agendas. It will also focus on the extent to which race, gender and class have shaped the creative work of Black women. Students will be required to read, discuss, analyze and write their own responses to the works of such firebrands as author Zora Neale Hurston, activist Ida B. Wells, filmmaker Julie Dash, and singer Billie Holliday.
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This course is an analysis of race and its relation to crime in the criminal justice system. Students will analyze and interpret the perceived connection between race and crime, while exploring the dynamics of race, crime, and justice in the United States. This course is designed to familiarize students with current research and theories of racial discrimination within America's criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the structure, history and use of African-American English. Topics will include the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of African-American English, theories of origin, linguistic repertoire and code-switching in African-American communities, the Ebonics controversy, and the role of this variety in education and identity formation. Student cannot receive credit for both AAAS 477 and AAAS 577.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with African Diasporan history from the 19th century to the present. The method is by definition cross-cultural and comparative, requiring that the works or figures under study represent a diversity of Diasporan nationalities and/or cultures. The course may focus on a wide range of topics. Students cannot receive credit for AAAS 491 and AAAS 591 when the topic title is the same.
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3.00 Credits
Topic: Senior Research Seminar: Africa and the New World Diaspora. A history research seminar exploring the broad history of Africa and its descendants in the New World. Emphasis will be placed on a series of cross-cultural but interconnected themes including: African civilizations, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and comparative systems of servitude, the Haitian Revolution, the American Civil War, the European conquest of Africa, trans-Atlantic systems of inequality, the World Wars, the African intellectual renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and Independence Movements in Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Students pursuing the AAAS minor or an area of focus in African and African American Studies may choose to complete their coursework with a final thesis project that reflects research interests developed during their course of study. This thesis, which can be used to fulfill three (3) hours of the required upper-division course work, will be written under the direction of a faculty member whose scholarly expertise is compatible with the research field(s) of the student. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Students pursuing the AAAS minor as well as those interested in focusing on some particular area in African and African American Studies may wish to do research on a topic not covered in the regular AAAS curriculum. This course provides an opportunity for students to conduct such research under the direction of a qualified faculty member. The project must be defined in advance in writing. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
The status of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States with particular reference to the social dynamics involved with regard to majority-minority relations. Topics of study include inequality, segregation, pluralism, the nature and causes of prejudice and discrimination and the impact that such patterns have upon American life. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version AAAS 403. Students cannot receive credit for both AAAS 403 and AAAS 503. (AY)
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3.00 Credits
Have you ever been dissed? Why are some people targets of disrespect? This class examines the unequal distribution of power - social, economic, and political - in the United States and other countries that results in favor for privileged groups. We will examine a variety of institutional practices and individual beliefs that contribute to disrespect. We'll look at ways that beliefs and practices, like viewing inequality as consequence of a 'natural order', obscure the processes that create and sustain social discrimination. We will engage in the intellectual examination of systems, behaviors, and ideologies that maintain discrimination and the unequal distribution of power and resources. Students will not receive credit for both AAAS 404 and AAAS 504. This course is distinguished from its 400-level counterpart by the requirement of additional assignments, including a required additional paper.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of major 20th century African American writers. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama will be examined, but one genre will be stressed in any given term, e.g., the novel. Lectures will provide historical and biographical context for analysis and discussion on the works. (OC).
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