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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African Americans from the era of the Atlantic slave trade to the beginning of the Civil War. Topics include the African origins of African Americans, defining African Americans, the slave trade, free Blacks in antebellum America, origins of the Black church, slavery, and abolitionism. Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or 9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African Americans since the beginning of the Civil War. Topics include Blacks and Reconstruction, Blacks and Redemption, "The Nadir," emigration and colonization, Black cowboys, theGreat Migration, Blacks in World Wars I and II, Marcus Garvey, Blacks and the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 12.7.) Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or 9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of the major themes and debates in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the United States from 1950 to 1975. Highlight the discourses among and about African Americans as they relate to the creation of political and social movements in the quest for racial and economic justice. This course is the same as Political Science 32.1. Prerequisite: Core Studies 3 or 4 or Core Curriculum 2.2 or 2.3.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of Black protest and liberation movements from the slave revolts to recent urban rebellions. Immediate underlying causes of specific events. Such major trends as the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and the Third World movement. Prerequisite: one of the following: Core Studies 3, 4, 9, Sociology 5, Political Science 1 or 1.5, or Social Science 1 or 2, or Africana Studies 0.12 or 0.2.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Emergence of Caribbean societies during the era of indentured servants in the islands. Imported institutions and their changing character in the new environment.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Comparative approach to the government and politics of the contemporary Caribbean. Major states in the Caribbean: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Commonwealth Caribbean; and selected members of other territories. The political economy of these societies and the growth of mass movements. Foreign policies of various Caribbean states. This course is the same as Political Science 49.8. Prerequisite: one of the following: Core Studies 3, 9, Africana Studies 17, 17.3, Political Science 1.5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Creation and development of the Haitian experience as shaped by the African connections. Analysis of the societal forces impinging on Haiti as the first Black independent republic in the New World. Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.5, 17, 17.3, 17.4, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Study of selected topics in the history and politics of the Africana world. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. Prerequisite: English 2 or sophomore status or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African American oral tradition and African American culture. Survival of the African culture. Oral history, spirituals, folktales, blues, toasts, dozens, etc. Uses of the oral tradition in literature.This course is the same as English 24.5. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7. Africana Studies 87
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African religious and philosophical beliefs as they have shaped cultural practices, language, social organization, material culture, music, visual arts, and religion of African people in the diaspora. Considers reinterpreted African cultural practices in African American, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Historical and contemporary patterns of creolization. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 14.)
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