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3.00 Credits
This seminar in world music will introduce students to topics and techniques in ethno-musicology. After an initial survey of the music cultures of the Pacific basin, the musics of Africa, India, China and Japan will be studied in greater detail. Students will develop a major project based on one of these music cultures. A museum visit to study musical instruments will be an important component to the course. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys aspects of African-American history from earliest times to the present. The topics include: the African background; slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Blacks in the colonial period; the Civil War and reconstruction; Black migrations, civil and social rights struggles; and political and cultural nationalism (Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements). ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The issues of the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction will be analyzed from the perspective of military, political, and constitutional history. The complex role of race in the whole era will be evaluated from slavery to the "Re-union" era about 1890. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the formal and informal participation of African women in politics, their interaction with the state and their role in society. Themes will include: the role of women in pre-colonial African society, women's responses to colonial intervention and rule, African women in the independence struggle, in the post-colonial political economy and the military, and women's contemporary political and social activism. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the following aspects of U.S. racism: the role of racism in advancing reactionary domestic and foreign policies; the impact of social and economic policies on the Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities; the racist features of U.S. policies for Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East; and the forms of domestic and international opposition to racism. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines ideological and organizational expressions of Black American Nationalism in the 20th century. Themes to be examined include Black economic nationalism, political nationalism, cultural nationalism, the Harlem Renaissance, political radicalism, religious and cultural nationalism, Pan- Africanism, the Black Power movement, revolutionary nationalism and Black nationalism today. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Al-Islam, a traditional monotheistic religion, has had a difficult interface with modern pluralistic culture in the United States. This course explores how this situation came to be. Particular emphasis will be placed on: early western ideas about Islam; immigration; African American Islam; Middle East politics; the media and the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. United States social and foreign policy toward Muslims and Islamic countries are also examined. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the emergence of modern South Africa from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics include: early African societies; Dutch advent; British colonialism and its consequences; African state formation; the mining and industrial revolutions; the Union; African, Colored, Indian and Afrikaner nationalisms; the emergence of the apartheid system; postapartheid political, economic and social developments; the varieties of resistance to apartheid up to the release of Mandela and the future of South Africa. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The ideological journey of the man who was born as Malcolm Little and died as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz is the focus of this course. The course also explores the political and religious contexts in which Malcolm X developed, as a way of understanding political and religious life in the United States during the 40s, 50s and 60s. ( Spring '06)
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3.00 Credits
The ideological journey of a man who was a central figure in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s is the focus of this course. In particular, this course will examine the socio-cultural context and the theological underpinnings of King's particular form of non-violent direct action.
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