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4.00 Credits
Examines race and ethnicity from a sociological perspective. Focus on the role of the major racial and ethnic communities in modern American society. Explores the roles of race and ethnicity in identity, social relations, and social inequality. Topics include racial and ethnic communities, minority/majority groups, assimilation, prejudice/discrimination, identity and the social construction of the concept of "race." H. Johnson (SS)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the philosophy born of struggle against racism and white supremacy. We will read the work of philosophers, mostly European, who quietly made modern racism possible by inventing the category of race, but we will concentrate on the work of philosophers, mostly of African descent, who for 200 years have struggled to force a philosophical critique of the category of race and the practice of white supremacy. (HU)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the roots of jazz. Starting in West Africa, the course traces the synthesis of African and European elements to 1945. Musicians covered are Gottshalk, Bolden, Morton, Armstrong, Hawkins, Basie, Ellington, and others. Warfield (HU)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of modern jazz from 1945 to present. Musicians covered include Parker, Gillespie, Monk, Davis, Coltrane, Hancock, and Coleman. Can be taken independently of Jazz History I, but the first course would be helpful. Warfield (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Blacks in America from the first importation of Africans to the implementation of civil rights laws. West African origins, slave trade, slavery, free blacks and emancipation and study of Reconstruction, segregation, urbanization, and the struggle for racial equality. Staff (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Survey of African American prose narrative and poetry from the 18th century to the present. Features writers from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the post-Black Power era. Staff (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Foundations of African American theater: historical, literary, and practical. K. Johnson (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of scholarship on the attitudes and actions of black Americans stressing the psychological dynamics, popular culture and behavior of contemporary African Americans. Staff (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Literature by African American women writers with a focus on the experiences and images of black women in the U.S. Explores the written portraits and voices of 20th century black female novelists and poets, including Hurston, Petry, Morrison, Angelou, and Walker. Staff (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Cultural diversity in the Caribbean islands and the Guyanas, with emphasis on the African, Amerindian, and Indian influences. The sociological and cultural implications of the region’s diversity, with special emphasis on ethnicity, slavery and indenture, emancipation and independence, modernization, immigration, the impact of tourism and the development of Creole cultures. Lecture and discussion. Staff (SS)
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