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This course acquaints students with the major concepts, themes, and approaches to the study of peoples of African descent. These concepts include history and the African past; slavery, forced migration, and the creation of the Diaspora; colonialism and conquest; race and identity; resistance and religion; and cultural transformation. Integrating the disciplines, the course uses a variety of texts, music and visual culture. Ms. Bickerstaff. Not offered in 2008/09.
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Topic for 2008/09: The Idea of Freedom in the African and Diasporic Experience. The quest for freedom has been one of humanity's greatest endeavors. In enduring and ultimately combating the injustices of slavery, colonialism, Apartheid and Jim Crow, peoples of African descent, perhaps more than any other group, have contributed to the articulation of more expansive notion of freedom. From Africa's antiquity to its golden age, and from the Euro-African encounter in the fifteenth century to the civil rights and anticolonial movements of the twentieth century, the course looks at the historical, social, moral and ethical foundations for African and African-American ideas of freedom. Using a selection of philosophical tracts, poems, and novels, the course examines African contributions to definitions and expression of freedom. Mr. Rashid.Open to Freshmen only. Satisfies the Freshman Writing Seminar requirement. Topic for 2008/09a: Religion and the Civil Rights Movement. (Same as Religion 105a) Mr. Mamiya, Mr. Kahn.
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Fundamentals of the language. Students learn to understand spoken Arabic, to express simple ideas both orally and in writing, and to read Arabic of average difficulty. Ms. Abdelrahman. Open to all students. Three 50-minute periods, plus one drill session per week.
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Examines the works of a number of African writers, both orally transmitted texts-such as folklore and poetry-and written genres, and their cultural influence and impact upon European concepts about Africans before and during the Renaissance, including the period of the 800 years of Moorish/Muslim rule of Iberia. It also investigates how contemporary African writers have tried to revive a sense of the African cultural continuum in old and new literary works. Writers include: Horus, St. Augustine, Ibn Khaldun, Achebe, Ba, Ngugi, Neto, Abrahams, Mazrui, and Salih.Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Education 160) This course examines select classical works from the oral tradition and contemporary works of children's fiction and non-fiction. The course addresses juvenile literature as a sociological phenomenon as well as a literary and artistic one (illustrative content). The course traces the socio-historical development of American children's literature from Western and non-Western societies. Social, psychoanalytic, and educational theories provide a conceptual basis and methodological framework for the cultural analysis of fairy tale and modern fantasy in cross-cultural perspective. Socialization issues include: ideals of democracy; moral character; race and class; politicalization; and the human relationship to the natural environment. Ms. Bickerstaff.
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(Same as Music 202) An analytical exploration of the music of certain African and European cultures and their adaptive influences in North America. The course examines the traditional African and European views of music performance practices while exploring their influences in shaping the music of African Americans from the spiritual to modern times. Mr. Reid.
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(Same as American Culture 205b) This course examines issues related to identity formation, such as ethnicity, gender, religion, and biculturalism among at least four generations of American writers, intellectuals, and journalists of Arab descent. Students also read accounts by Arab travelers in the U.S., autobiographies, novels, short stories, and poetry spanning the twentieth century, as well as articles, and book chapters about the immigration and cultural history of Arab Americans. The authors studied include: Khalil Bigran, Elia Abu Madi, Mikhail Naimy, Joseph Geha, Diana Abu Jaber, Naomi Shihab Nye and Suheir Hammad. Mr. Mhiri. Not offered in 2008/09.
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Continued study of the Arabic language. Students continue their study of spoken, and written Arabic. Ms. Abdelrahman.
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African literatures written in English and in French have tended to be considered as separate entities. The purpose of this course is to question that divide by studying specific novels, ranging from 1953-2004, in dialogue with one another. Related films are shown and discussed. Works studied are Chinua Achege's (Nigeria) Things Fall Apart (1958), Ahmadou Kourouma's (Ivory Coast) The Suns of Independence (1968, trad. 1981), Camara Laye's (Guinea) The Dark Child: Autobiography of an African Boy (1953, trad. 1954), Wole Soyinka's (Nigeria) Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981), Mongo Beti's (Cameroon) Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness (1953, trad. 1978), Ayi Kewi Armah's (Ghana) The Beautiful One Are Not Yet Born (1988), Aminata Sow Fall's (Senegal) The Beggars Strike (1981), Helon Habila's (Nigeria) Waiting for an Angel (2004), Buddhi Emecheta's (Nigeria/England) The New Tribe (2000) and Calixthe Beyala's (Cameroon/France) Loukoum: The Little Prince of Belleville (1992, trad. 1998). Ms. CNot offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Religion 211) A comparative socio-historical analysis of the dialectical relationship between religion and the conditions of oppressed people. The role of religion in both suppression and liberation is considered. Case studies include the cult of Jonestown (Guyana), the Iranian revolution, South Africa, slave religion, and aspects of feminist theology. Mr. Mamiya. Not offered in 2008/09.
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