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1.00 Credits
This course will critically examine five themes in modern Caribbean history and society: What is the Caribbean? Nationalism, religion, economic development, and popular culture. These themes will be discussed with reference to the different geographical, racial, cultural and political spaces, which comprise the Caribbean.
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the position of Blacks in the national histories and societies of Latin America from slavery to the present-day. Emphasis is on a multidisciplinary engagement with issues and the exposure of students to the critical discussion of national images and realities about blackness and Africa-descended institutions and practices. The role of racial issues in national and transnational encounters and the consequences of migration of people and ideas within the hemisphere are explored.
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1.00 Credits
This course explores African American History through the lens of black freedom struggles. The struggles take all forms, between black and white from local to national levels, within and between black communities, and between men and women. This course assumes some familiarity with basic U.S. History and will utilize a variety of primary sources from autobiographical material to visual art and music as well as the usual monographs and articles. Aside from reading, students will be required to work with a writing fellow on 2 papers. There are also 2 exams.
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1.00 Credits
This course will review some of the central texts that constitute the different meanings of modernity and discuss how these texts became part of our framework for thinking about modernity, the human self and its different representations. The course will also engage texts that make attempts to complicate the meanings of modernity through a set of engagements with the issues of slavery, colonialism and race. Some key words in the course are: modernity, knowledge production, double-consciousness, social construction of race, racial slavery, coloniality. First Year Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to facilitate understanding of African American psychological experiences. We begin by critically reviewing historical approaches to the psychological study of Black people. We then shift to an examination of the themes, and research currently being generated by those involved in the quest for scholarly self-definition and for redefinition of the psychological fabric of the Black experience.
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1.00 Credits
This course will explore the ways that black women in the U.S. have experienced racial and gendered discrimination as well as what sorts of strategies (e.g., political, intellectual, narrative, and creative) black women have devised in response. We will be especially concerned with elements of African-American feminist thought and its articulation in writings, music, literature and practice/activism in the 20th century U.S. Enrollment limited to 80.
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1.00 Credits
"In this era of Black Power... theology cannot afford to be silent." This lecture course will plumb the depths of James H. Cone's statement by critically interrogating the cultural, political, and theoretical dimensions of the development and evolution of Black Theology. The course will consider the nature and task of theology with particular reference to its contested role in American public life, the complex relation between theology, race, and radical politics, and the connections and disjunctures between Black Theology and the fields of history, literature, and philosophy.
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1.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the methods and practice of studying black urban life with a primary focus on US cities. We will critically examine the urban cultural studies debates concerned with race, gender, class and sexuality. The approach of the course will be interdisciplinary, drawing upon works from anthropology, literature, history, music, and film. Topics include tourism, immigration, poverty, popular culture, gentrification, violence, and criminalization. WRIT
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the social and cultural history of black urban communities by examining the foundation of black communities in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. We will examine how migration and the intersections of race, class, culture and gender shape life in urban places, reveal the structural forces that define black urban communities, and explore urban African-American expressive forms.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
This course is an historical, political and topical examination of the subject of War on the African continent as seen through the lens of artistic response. Class discussions will be based on the different Stage, Screen and Radio Dramas that will serve as course materials. We will analyze reflections by African artists and scholars on the violent conflicts that have characterized the region¿s recent history, as well as closely related international perspectives, such as those evident in Hotel Rwanda and The Last King of Scotland. We will also explore how political actors have used peformative techniques, and will specifically examine the ways that other members of society (especially women and children) deal with such crises. Canonical African dramatists like Fugard, Ngugi, Soyinka and Ousmane will be referred to, but emphasis will be laid upon the New Voices emerging from a range of African nations, including Rwanda, Uganda, Congo, Senegal, Sudan and South Africa, that have engaged with the subject of war.
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