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3.00 Credits
This course provides the foundations and context for Africana Studies from an historical and contemporary perspective. It defines the geographical parameters which include the study of Africans on the Continent and in the diaspora (Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean). It also clarifies concepts and correct false perceptions of Africa and Africans, with a focus on inclusiveness and diversity of both the traditional and the modern. This course is multi-disciplinary cross-cultural, taught from an African-centered perspective sensitive to race, gender, and class. Faculty members from the departments of anthropology, economics, French, history, political science and sociology participate as guest lecturers. (Pinto)
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3.00 Credits
More than ever, the ghetto has come to dominate the American imagination. Mainstream media has portrayed the inner city as a place of fear and to be feared. In reaction to this view, many African American and Latino writers and filmmakers have forged powerful images of community and effort. This course focuses on films and literary texts that take up the imagery of the ghetto and its role in modern American society. In addition, students consider the role of the inner city as the crucible for hip hop culture, including its international manifestations. (Jiménez, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the people, land and culture of South Africa. It is a requirement for students planning to go on the South Africa program. It is taught from an African-centered and feminist perspective inclusive of the variety and diversity of peoples and cultures. It includes the historical, socio-political, literary and cultural aspects. The cultural component includes music and the arts. Issues of health and safety are central to the course. (Pinto, Fall, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course makes students aware of the importance of people in any culture having a voice in the events that influence their lives and examines the contributions of South African women to their history and culture. In the post-apartheid period (since 1994) women's narratives, autobiographies, novels, stories and plays have emerged as a rich source of information about the hidden and silenced majority. These narratives navigate between history and literature reconfiguring women's roles in South African history and culture. The literary texts can in this way contribute to the restoration of women's places and rewriting their history and contributions. No prerequisites. (Pin to, Fall, offered alternate year
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of African Literature I and focuses on a single national literature from Africa and the ways in which writers and bards work in the context of the postcolonial national society identity. (Pinto, Joseph)
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3.00 Credits
This course attempts to identify and analyze distinctive elements of African American culture. It focuses on literature, dance, and film, but also refers to music and visual arts. While it follows the development of African American culture chronologically, it often returns to key experiences and sees them in light of new experiences or different contexts. (Jiménez, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes issues of special importance to Third World women through literary texts. The focus is on the "politics of the body," and includes discussion of such issues as reproduction, fertility and infertility, self image and racial identity, and aging. (Pinto, Jimén ez, offered alternate year
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine, identity in the past-apartheid South Africa analyzing the influence of racism and sexism over a protracted period on the formation of personal and group identity. Political and ideological manipulation and the distortions created by the apartheid system over a long period will be examined in the context of the new democratic South Africa. The intersections and distortions will be examined in novels and other non-fictional works to determine how to gain integrated identities in post apartheid communities. (Pinto, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines films by African, African American, and other African diaspora directors. It focuses on the attempt by different filmmakers to wrest an African/diasporic identity and aesthetic from a medium that has been defined predominantly by American and European models. Students analyze the implicit and explicit attempts to formulate a black aesthetic within film, as well as the general phenomenon of the representation of blacks in film. Directors considered include Haile Gerima, Ousmane Sembene, Souleymane Cisse, Charles Burnett, Camille Billops, Isaac Julien, Sara Maldoror, Julie Dash, Spike Lee and others. (Jiménez, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide basic analytical tools for the study of racial and ethnic images in films, television, and other texts. The focus is on African American and Latino images in mainstream media as inflected through issues of race/ethnicity, gender, and class. (Jiménez, offered alternate years)
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