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3.00 Credits
This course will provide the student with a sampling of the diversity of experiences of people of African descent in the Americas as viewed from the archaeologist's and historical anthropologists' perspectives. Because the language of archaeology is material culture, we'll be exploring how people have used crafts, goods, and space to communicate and negotiate identities and relationships with one another in the contexts of colonization, the birth of new nations, industrialization, and modernization. The experiences of colonizers and colonized, enslaved people, and post-colonial immigrant peoples and their families will be discussed. Due to the breadth and diversity of the material to be covered, the course will have both a loosely chronological and topical structure, but will not adhere formally to either.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of Creole societies in the French, Spanish, Dutch, and British Caribbean in response to colonialism, slavery, migration, nationalism and, most recently, transnationalism. The recent exodus of as much as 20 percent of Caribbean populations to North America and Europe has afforded the rise of new transnational modes of existence. This course will explore the consciousness and experience of Caribbean diasporas through ethnography and history, religion, literature, music, and culinary arts.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical formation of francophone culture in Africa and the Carribbeans. It familiarizes students with the colonial and post-colonial cultures of Africa and the Caribbeans. Readings in African and Caribbean studies, histories, literature, and sociology are utilized to emphasize similarities between the societies such as a shared colonial history. Furthermore, this course will enhance one's cross-cultural understanding and, therefore, facilitate the students' cross-cultural thinking and dialogue.
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1.50 Credits
This intermediate level course is intended for students who have taken Beginning level Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyol, or Creole, the vernacular language of Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe. The program is primarily designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research among Haitians in Haiti, the United States or other parts of the Haitian diaspora, and for those looking to develop or improve their language skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to black populations in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Students will gain familiarity with elements of the history, social context, and culture of the particular populations covered, and, through the course's comparative scope, come to better understand race, ethnicity, culture, nation, and Diaspora as concepts and as salient experiences contributing to the formation of group identities within and beyond the African diaspora. Students will also learn about different theoretical approaches to blackness and about some of the different forms of social and political activism associated with black populations. Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia will be among the national contexts considered in course readings and students will have opportunities to explore other contexts in accordance with their individual interests.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to organizations and movements arising from and on behalf of black populations in the Diaspora, including the United States and various nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Movements" is defined broadly in this course to include both historical and contemporary instances of collective activism and organizing around artistic, cultural, social, intellectual, political, and/or religious agendas aimed at bringing about black liberation, social justice, and cultural/ethnic/racial awareness and pride. Among the topics to be considered are varying expressions of black nationalism within the U.S., Rastafarianism in Jamaica, black identity groups in Brazil, and black organizational presence and community building on the internet. Readings and class discussions will encourage students to think about blackness (and identity and mobilization more generally) in global terms, searching for points of connection across international borders along with points of disconnect based on differing historical, cultural, and socio-political realities and differing local understandings of race and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
The study of religious beliefs and practices in tribal and peasant societies emphasizing myths, ritual, symbolism, and magic as ways of explaining man's place in the universe. Concepts of purity and pollution, the sacred and the profane, and types of ritual specialists and their relationship to social structure will also be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses a broad cross-cultural comparative perspective to identify and analyze the major forms of human social organization. Gender is a major lens through which to examine sex and sexuality, divisions of labor, family structures, gender roles, and social relations of class and ethnicity. Other topics include kinship terminology, descent, marriage and divorce, residence units, economic exchange, political structure, and social inequality, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Africa is known as the cradle of humanity and has the longest record of "human" activity of any continent. Yet it is also the least understood in terms of its past. The discipline of anthropology has the primary field of study used to understand the development of societies and cultures of Africa. In this course, students will learn and critically apply techniques drawn from biological anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, history and linguistic anthropology for understanding the evolution of human societies within Africa, and the inter-connections between Africa and the rest of the world from the earliest times to the present era. Topics covered in the readings, lectures, practical laboratory work, and assignments will include the beginnings of cultural development (tool-making and social networks), the interactive development of agriculture, pastoralism and foraging, the rise of social complexity, urbanism and states within Africa, colonialism, and post-colonial African states.
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