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This course introduces students to the vibrant and contested field of Africana Studies by critically exploring and analyzing the links and disjunctures in the cultural, political, and intellectual practices and experiences of people of African descent throughout the African diaspora. Beginning with a critical overview of the history, theoretical orientations, and multiple methodological strategies of the discipline, the course is divided into three thematic units that examine intellectuals, politics, and movements; identity construction and formation; and literary, cultural, and aesthetic theories and practices in the African diaspora.
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Interested students must register for TAPS 0100 S03 (CRN 16158).
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1.00 Credits
History is characterized by many forms of gross injustice, as well as by efforts to prevent, redress, or make amends for them. This seminar examines a series of case studies in retrospective justice, including war crimes tribunals, truth and reconciliation commissions, national apologies, and reparations movements, as well as the work of Brown's recent Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
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Addresses the profound effects of contemporary economic, political, and social changes on the role and function of the university in the 21st century. A primary concern of the seminar is to critically analyze how and in what ways the transformations in the broader society challengs, constrain, and, at times, frustrate critical intellectual activity. The seminar will draw on a broad and diverse set of readings ranging from classic statements by Cardinal Newman and W.E.B. DuBois to contemporary critical analyses by Henry Giroux and Adolph Reed, Jr. Enrollment limited to 20 first year students. FYS
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Most of the rich written history of the civil rights movement originates from first-hand accounts documented in oral histories and autobiographies. This interdisciplinary course plots the milestones of the civil rights movement through the lens of several autobiographies. The aim is to critique autobiography as a historical document as well as use it to tell the stories of the civil rights movement. We will compare and contrast different texts, analyze content and map a history of the era. Students will work with a writing fellow to develop one critical paper and one autobiographical paper. Enrollment limited to 20 first year students. FYS
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Prejudice of many kinds, such as racism and sexism is so embedded in our modern social institutions, and so traditional and pervasive that we often fail to notice it. Furthermore, race and gender have been used repeatedly to explain differences. This course is a rigorous examination of the philosophical meanings of race and gender, from a variety of historical, anthropological and feminists perspectives.
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An introduction to recent African history, the course combines chronological and topical approaches. It is organized around the major epochs of colonialism, decolonization and post-colonial independence, but within those periods, we will concentrate on themes such as health, environment, development, the state and artistic expression. Readings draw heavily on primary sources. Three exams and two projects, including group work.
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Focuses on the history of Africans and persons of African decent in the part of North America that now constitutes the U.S. Centers on the 18th century, but gives some attention to the 17th and 19th centuries as well. Most of the readings are devoted to the English colonies, but some concern themselves with Dutch, French, and Spanish settlements.
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Examines some of the themes important in the multiracial societies of the Caribbean from the 17th through the early years of the 19th century. Explores Creole societies, plantation economies, ethnicity, maroon societies, class and racial divisions, acculturation, syncretic religions, and patterns of slave resistance. Danish, Dutch, English, French, and Spanish settlements are studied.
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