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This course will employ a variety of narrative forms -- oral folktales, WPA narratives, slave narratives, short stories by European and American writers -- will also investigate the multiple traditions of African American fiction.
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What is "hip hop journalism"? Is it just "new journalism" stylized with urban (s)language? Is it "advocacy journalism", written subjectively by urban young people of color for urban young people of color, compelled only to celebrate and never critique or problematize hip hop culture? This seminar will be a writing-intensive examination of "hip hop journalism". We will read a survey of books and articles for textual, cultural, and aesthetic analysis of the ways in which "hip hop journalism" changes, maintains, subverts and questions the culture industry that has grown out of and around hip hop cultural expression. Weekly writing assignments - columns, editorials, reviews, and profiles - will be expected and possibly lead to the production of a class-produced blog or publication at the end of the semester. A writing sample will be requested if the class is oversubscribed.
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The primary objective of this course is to learn about and reflect upon public art and communities. This course will use selected public art and artists' ideologies as a framework for exploring culture, creativity, politics and practices and focus on the ways in which these public art works and artists' responses to varied forms of internal and external operators and stimuli successfully and unsuccessfully give voice to aspects of the environment, history, culture, social justice, health, politics and the imagination. This course will also pay attention to arts organizations, government agencies, history, power relations, human resources as well as leadership and the political that continues to influence public modes of artistic production.
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This seminar offers a survey of post-colonial African history, while probing the challenges of writing post-colonial history. Readings and discussions will focus on histories that bridge the colonial and post-colonial periods. How robust are these periods? What can historians draw from post-colonial theory? How can historical narratives account for both the colonial legacy and post-colonial dynamism. Enrollment limited to 20; instructor permission required. Students with a background in African history or contemporary African social science will be given priority. Interested students should email the professor at Nancy_Jacobs@brown.edu. DVPS
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An examination of some of the most influential work on problems of identity and being, theology and theodicy, time and history, method and evaluation, race and racism, postcoloniality and liberation in contemporary African philosophy. Readings include the work of Anthony Appiah, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Gyekye, Pauline Hountondji, D. A. Masolo, John Mbiti, Kwame Nkrumah, Léopold Senghor, Tsenay Serequeberhan, among others.
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Explores the literature, music, and art of the so-called Harlem Renaissance, within the context of broader transformations in African American and American culture and politics in the decade of the 1920s. Readings include books by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Wallace Thurman, and Claude McKay; contemporary essays, reviews and manifestoes; and recent critical studies.
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Do West African writers have a role to play in the changing political landscape of their countries? An examination of the ways and means through which a select group of West African writers have dealt with issues that relate to the role of the state in the management of individual and group relations, the politics of gender, civil and military relations, and the construction of new forms of civil society.
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This advanced seminar in Africana philosophy will examine critical texts and thinkers that articulate the problems, methods, and techniques for interrogating the interrelationships between the discourse of philosophy and modern conceptions of race. The seminar will move to consider contemporary engagements in this area by drawing on readings and thinkers from analytical, continental, feminist, marxist, and pragmatist philosophical traditions.
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