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3.00 Credits
Students explore music from North, East, Central, Southern, and West Africa in the contexts of both 19th and 20th century colonialism and post-colonialism. Addtionally, students will be exposed to the music of the African Diaspora in South America, the Carribean, the United States and Europe, paying close attention to how religious and socio-political themes infuse and inform performance practices as well as societal change. Many musical genres - from raggae to rap and salsa to funk - will be covered. The course emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from ethnomusicology, African and African American studies, Diaspora studies, anthropology, history, religious, colonial and post-colonial studies.Although not a prerequisite, this is a continuation of Music of Africa and the Diaspora (MUS20147). Preparation for lectures include select readings and occasional listening. Please bring open ears as much listening will be done in class.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of late 20th-century Black literature in the United States and its relation to other ethnic literatures.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of black diasporic artistry. At the same time, it answers the question, "who constitutes the Black Diaspora?" in unique ways. We will focus primarily on this conversation's development from the 1920s up to the present through poetry, prose fiction and nonfiction, visual art, film, and television. Attention will be devoted to how these different genres and media frame what is known (or unknown) about the Black Diaspora. Moreover, we will consider how these media and genres influence political activism in the Black Diaspora. Due to the diversity of the materials covered, the themes will give the course its unity. Students will be urged to follow a particular theme (or two) throughout the course. Some of these themes might include race, gender, class, the body, and leadership. Some of the artists and intellectuals in this survey will include: African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Nathaniel Mackey; Trinidadian-Canadian poet M. Nourbese Philip; musicians like Nigerian artist and activist Fela Kuti; Martinican philosopher and psychoanalyst Frantz Fanon; orator and activist Martin Luther King, Jr; the Haitian-Puerto Rican visual artists Jean-Michel Basquiat; and the visual artist Kehinde Wiley. Class participation is paramount. Students will also write reader response papers and research essays.
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3.00 Credits
What does it mean to be in a "crisis?" We live only a few years after a natural disaster ravaged the southern coast of the United States; we live only a few years after incidents of racial violence and judicial mishaps culminated in national protest; finally, these issues have been swallowed up by our worry over an economic breakdown that has been called a mere downturn by some, a recession by others, and even fewer have called it a depression. But none of these descriptions help us understand what we mean by "crisis" and what potential there is to think and act in such turbulent times. The same sorts of issues troubling our present also troubled Americans living in the Great Depression. African American writers of that period wrote novels, short stories, autobiographies, historiographies, poetry and other literary pieces that were both aesthetically rich and experiments in thinking critically about these issues. This course simply asks: How can Depression-era African American literature help us understand what it means to think during a "crisis," and see the word as a concept, not just a media buzz word? Readings will include canonical authors like W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B Wells, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Carter G Woodson, studied alongside artistic and theoretical responses to Hurricane Katrina, Jena 6, and other recent events.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of African Americans, beginning with an examination of their West African origins and ending with the Civil War era. We will discuss the 14th and 15th centuries, West African kingdoms and cultures, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, early slave societies in the Caribbean, slavery in colonial America, the beginnings of African-American cultures in the North and South, slave resistance and rebellions, the political economy of slavery and resulting sectional disputes, and the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
African American History II is a course that examines the broad range of problems and experiences of African Americans from the close of the American Civil War to the 1980s. We will explore both the relationship of blacks to the larger society and the inner dynamics of the black community. We will devote particular attention to Reconstruction, the migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north, and the political machinations of the African American community. The course will utilize historical documents in the form of articles and other secondary sources. Classes will be conducted as lecture-discussions.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the history of New World exploration and settlement by Europeans from the 15th to the 18th century. It examines the process of colonization in a wide variety of cultural and geographic settings. It explores the perspectives of Indians, Europeans, and slaves with a particular emphasis on the consequences of interracial contacts. We will discuss the goals and perceptions of different groups and individuals as keys to understanding the violent conflict that became a central part of the American experience. Lectures, class discussions, readings, and films will address gender, racial, class, and geographic variables in the peopling (and depeopling) of English North America.
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3.00 Credits
Through intensive reading and writing students will explore the social and cultural history of America's most costly war. We will focus on various topics as they relate to the war: antebellum origins, religion, gender, Lincoln's reasons for waging war, dead bodies, freedmen's families, black soldiers, and the uses of war memory. This will not be a guns-and-generals-smell-the-smoke course, though knowledge of military matters can be helpful. We will ask and try to answer who really "won" and "lost" the war.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the history of paid and unpaid labor in the United States from the American Revolution to the near present. We will seek to understand how working people both shaped -- and were shaped by -- the American Revolution, early industrialization, the debates over slavery and free labor culminating in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of big business, the creation of a national welfare state, the Cold War-era repression of the left, and continuing debates over the meanings of work, citizenship, and democracy. Throughout the course, we will devote considerable time to the organizations workers themselves created to advance their own interests, namely the unions and affiliated institutions that have made up the labor movement. We will also pay special attention to the crucial connections between work and identities of class, race, and gender as they evolved over the past two centuries.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to study the political, diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural development of the United States from 1945 through the presidency of George H.W. Bush. Although the military and diplomatic history of World War II will be considered by way of background, the principal topics of investigation will be the Fair Deal Program of President Truman, the Cold War, the Korean Conflict, the Eisenhower Presidency, the New Frontier, Vietnam, President Johnson's Great Society, the Civil Rights Movement, the Nixon years, the social and intellectual climate of this post-war era, and the presidencies of Gerald Ford through George H.W. Bush. There will be a required reading list of approximately six books, two smaller writing assignments, and three examinations.
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