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3.00 Credits
This is a broad, interdisciplinary examination of race, Carnival expressions in the Caribbean and the Americas and global Black sports in comparative perspective. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, 220, 221 or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 20. Westmaas.
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3.00 Credits
A broad, interdisciplinary introduction to global social and political movements in Africa and the Americas throughout a 200-year period from the revolutions at the end of the 18th century to the modern political and social movements. Addresses theories of social movements, their racial and cultural formation, the variations in type and consequence of movements, and the contexts in which they arose. Examples of movements to be studied are the anti-slavery movement, the Pan-Africanist movement, the women's movement and the rise of modern NGOs. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, 101, 220, 221 or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 20. Westmaas.
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3.00 Credits
An important part of the black experience in the Americas has been shaped by and unfolded in complex black urban worlds. As a symbol of an imagined black experience the notion of the ghetto often serves as a flashpoint in popular culture, policy debates and social memory. This course explores the idea of the isolated inner city community or ghetto in history as well as the great creativity, challenges and triumphs of black urban life. Prerequisite, 220, 221 or 381. Maximum enrollment, 12. D Carter.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the multiple Diasporas created in the course of the expansion of the world capitalist economy - a process that produced slavery and had a transformative effect on world history. Examines the multiple "diasporas" that resulted from this engagement of Europe and the continent of Africa and the consequent dispersal of people that continued with modern colonialism and imperialism. Open to juniors and seniors only. Concentrators and minors given priority. Maximum enrollment, 12. D Carter.
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3.00 Credits
Critical evaluation of selected topics in the field of Africana Studies. Culminates in written presentation of a detailed thesis/project proposal. Maximum enrollment, 20. Merrill, H.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary project to be approved by the committee. Limited to senior concentrators. Merrill.
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3.00 Credits
For Native Americans, myths are important not just as sacred narratives tied to indigenous customs, but also as manipulative tales outsiders have used to control Native peoples. Students examine latent stereotypes and manifest lies about the Native cultures and peoples of the Americas, the devotional ideologies they represent, the political roles they play and indigenous responses they inspire. The course engages indigenous politics in North, Middle and South America through an unorthodox study of history, religion, science and popular culture. (Same as Religious Studies 106.)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Asian-American studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that deals with the history, experiences and cultural production of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Filipino and Southeast Asian ancestry. Topics addressed include the history of Asian immigration to the United States; popular and self-representation of Asians in various cultural media; questions of race and ethnicity; and the category of gender as it is inflected along racial and class lines. Counts toward the concentrations in American studies or Asian studies. Not open to seniors. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates how to critically interpret and analyze video games and the roles they play in visual and popular culture, and how to test the application of these approaches to various issues in gaming and digital media culture more generally. Topics and themes include genre and aesthetics, the game industry, spectatorship, play, narrative, immersion, gender, race, militarism, violence and labor. (Writing-intensive.) (Same as Cinema and New Media Studies 205.) Maximum enrollment, 20.
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3.00 Credits
We are bombarded with images, in myriad forms, on a daily basis. How do we interpret and analyze them? What is the relationship between an online advertisement for a movie and the movie itself, between a television program and a video game? An overview of contemporary media theory as it relates to visual culture in the 21st century. Readings will include seminal works in psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, semiotics, postmodern theory, new media studies and visual studies. (Same as Cinema and New Media Studies 325.) Maximum enrollment, 12.
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