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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Study of selected topics in the literature, culture, and the arts 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 Literary works and theoretical paradigms relating to the culture of European imperialism and its aftermath. Diversity of works from many parts of the formerly colonized world to introduce the global significance of postcolonialism. Topics include: race and representation, Orientalism and the production of knowledge, Empire and exoticism, gender and nationalism, and multiculturalism and diasporic identities. This course is the same as English 50.13 and Comparative Literature 50.13. Prerequisite: English 2 or 2.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Black culture and writings in the Caribbean. Reflections on alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements, Negrism, Indigenism, and Negritude as the first step towards emancipation from a European cultural vision. Writers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined. All readings will be in English. This course is the same as Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 38 and Comparative Literature 38.3. (Not open to students who have completed Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 54.) Prerequisite: English 1.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits History and development of African American business enterprise and entrepreneurs from Booker T.Washington and the National Negro Business League to the present. Topics include political philosophy of "black capitalism"; smalland large businesses and the Black community; the impact of governmental programs on business development; case studies of successful African American businesses. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 34.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.11, 0.2, 0.4, or Core Studies 3.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits An interdisciplinary study of African Americans and urban life. Drawing on the methodological approaches of history, literature, and folklore primarily, although not exclusively, this course will examine the African American experience in United States cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Where appropriate, comparisons will be made with non-United States cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, or London. Topics chosen from: urban slavery, free blacks in Northern cities, race riots, "great migration," Caribbean migration, urbaneconomics, urban politics, the urban novel, the black family in the city, the blues, contemporary urban folklore. Prerequisite: two of the following: Core Studies 3, 4, and 9, or their equivalents.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of the relationships between the American judicial system and the socioeconomic status of Blacks. The role of law in the systematic subordination of Black rights.The use of law to ease the burden of racism. Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.2, Political Science 1.5, Core Studies 3, 4, or 9, or an equivalent course.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of the relationship between African Americans and the criminal justice system. Sociological theory and methods of collecting and understanding information. Assessment of the political, social, and economic institutions of American society as they frame race, crime, and punishment. Ways that the American criminal justice system has operated both to maintain and ameliorate a racially oppressive society. This course is the same as Sociology 51.41.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The Black family as a social unit in the experience of Black Americans from slavery to the present. Comparison with African family patterns past and present. Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.11, 0.12, or 0.2, Core Studies 3.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Goals, structures, and administration of community development programs and poverty programs past and present. Field trips to day care centers, youth programs, and adult learning centers. Practice in program design. (Not open to students who have completed Afro-American Studies 30.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of the factors responsible for the movement of Caribbean peoples to mainland North America; achievements, frustrations, and contributions of Caribbean communities to the host country; linkages between Caribbean-Americans and the Caribbean. Prerequisite: Africana Studies 0.5 or 17.
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