| AFAM (F26) | 40A AFRICAN AMERICAN I | STAFF |
| This course is an introduction to the studies of the history of people of the African diaspora in the United States. Our journey will begin and end with literature from/of Black folks, primarily focusing on the enslaved, listening for what was provided of their condition through their texts. In employing slave narratives as the majority of our primary sources, we will situate what is being provided through the texts in the larger social, political, and historical world- while considering how Black folks reimagined their lives |
| AFAM (F26) | 112B BLCK ABSURDISM | MCDOUGALL, T. |
| What is so weird about racial blackness? And what’s so absurd about being black? Is black art inherently weird, absurd or surreal? What is black about absurdism, surrealism and high weirdness? Could there be an aspect of these literary and philosophical traditions that contains a rumination on blackness? If so, what is it? In this course we contend with genres that acknowledge, emphasize and sometimes even celebrate the strangeness of black life and culture. Through film, literature, visual art and music, we will interrogate and contend with the absurd, the surreal, meaning and meaninglessness, and the menacing as a form of black expression, commercial cultural product, and critical meditation on form, practice, and politics of blackness. |
| AFAM (F26) | 113 BLACK TV & CHILL | MURILLO, J. |
| What are we watching when we watch Black TV shows? How do we watch Black TV shows? Why do we watch Black TV shows? We must unpack our answers to these questions and sort out the complicated and sometimes contradictory logic undergirding how and how much we pursue, engage, enjoy, and critique Black media. We want to think about why we watch what we watch when we watch it, the practices of watching and engaging with Black TV shows, and what we’re watching in the first place. Our goal in this course will be to interrogate Black TV shows as unique political expressions, theoretical and artistic interventions, and fervent sites of Black discursive life—televisual moments and spaces for enjoyment, discussion, debate, and being together. |
| AFAM (F26) | 118 BLK FOOD | MURILLO, J. |
| "What that taste like?” Ricardo used to ask. It is a loaded question. Black food tastes like subjection, struggle, and terror; and, joy, necessity, and community; and, at the nexus of all these, and in the most vexed way, care. There are historical, political, and philosophical reasons for that because, as with everything Black folk create, what we make is seasoned by the historical and political contexts we endure, and shaped by the hands, hearts, and minds of we who be Black. This course will ask us to consider not just the physical ingredients of the recipes of Black cuisine in, and sometimes beyond, the US, but also those historical, political, and philosophical ingredients that make Black food Black as it is. You hungry? |
| AFAM (F26) | 134B CARIB HISTORY II | SCHIELDS, C. |
| Post-emancipation and anti-colonial struggles ending with political independence for most of the region. Examines social, political, economic, cultural dimensions of post-emancipation period, including large-scale migration to Central America, the U.S., and Britain; the region's global cultural and political contribution. |
| AFAM (F26) | 155 BLACK AMERICAS | HARVEY, S. |
| In this course we explore the histories, politics, and imaginaries of black indigeneity in both the Americas and Africa. We examine colonialism, chattel slavery, and imperialism as forces that shape who counts as indigenous and why. |
| AFAM (F26) | 157 CRITICAL RACE THRY | ROMERO, M. |
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| AFAM (F26) | 163 BLACK PHILOSOPHY | HARVEY, S. |
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| AFAM (F26) | 198 DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 198 DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 198 DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 198 DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| AFAM (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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