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4.00 Credits
Examines the sociology of wealth and poverty - affluence and disadvantage, "rags and riches" - in AmericaSociety. Focus is a critical analysis of the wealth gap, its causes, consequences and social context. We will consider the roles of wealth and poverty in determining life chances and structuring opportunity, as well as their roles in the perpetuation of social inequality across generations. We will address contemporary debates surrounding public policy, tax laws, anti-poverty programs and other reform efforts aimed at decreasing the gap between the "Haves" and the "Have-Nots." Johnson (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Black leadership, organizations, and philosophy in America from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Era; ideas and programs of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Scott (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Studies African modernity through a close reading of ethnographies, social stories, novels, and African feature films. Staff (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Representation of contemporary popular culture in the Caribbean in literature, music, painting and other artistic expressions. Major attention is devoted to the influences on tradition, folklore and religion in modern Caribbean life. Staff (HU)
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of the roots, culture, and politics of the modern black world through study of classic works in Africana Studies with emphasis on the continuities among African peoples worldwide and the social forces that have shaped contemporary black life in Africa and the Americas. Fleisher (SS)
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide the student with an opportunity to engage current debates about the meaning and use of racial and sexual classification systems in society. Using a multidisciplinary and critical approach, we will examine the historical and sociological contexts in which specific theories of racial and sexual differences emerged in the U S. Prerequisite: SSP 103, or department permission. H. Johnson (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Speical Topics in African American culture and/or the cultures of the African diaspora. Topics may be focused by period, genre, thematic interest or interdisciplinary method including, for example, "Nineteenth-century African American Literature and Politics", "African-American Folklore", "Black Atlantic Literature", "THarlem Renaissance", "African-American WomenWriters". May be repeated for credit as title varies.
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4.00 Credits
Reciprocal relationships between North America and the African continent from the slave trade in the seventeenth century to the twentieth century Afrocentric movement; impact of Americans on shaping of modern Africa, Pan- African relations; influence of African Americans on U.S. policies toward Africa. Scott (SS)
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4.00 Credits
The emergence and demise of the "peculiar institution"of African American slavery in British North America and the Old South. African background, colonial beginnings, 19th century slave community, the ruling race and proslavery ideology, the death of slavery and its aftermath, slavery and freedom in a comparative context. Staff (SS)
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2.00 Credits
Performing in a department-approved production. May be repeated for credit. (HU)
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