This course is a study of art by African Americans with a particular focus on the politics of representation. Beginning chronologically with government sponsored artworks in the 1930s, students will discuss artworks created in a variety of forms including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and new media. Museum visits will be incorporated into the class activities.
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

This course explores Afro-Francophone history from the Caribbean plantations through the decolonial period at the intersection of race and violence. Gender and sexuality are also intersectional categories that inform our analysis. The curriculum argues that black people were subjected to violence as a fundamental imposition of the colonial order and, in turn, used violence to resist their subjugation.
History 100W fulfills the upper-division writing requirement for UCI and the historical writing requirement for the History Major with requirements that are set by the school and the department.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Restriction: History Majors have first consideration for enrollment.
Days: FR  11:00-01:50 PM

This course examines the development of Pan-Africanism beginning in the late nineteenth century and unfolding over the course of the twentieth century. The course explores some of the major intellectual currents within Pan-Africanist discourse, and the contributions of various intellectuals whose ideas have helped shape Pan-Africanist traditions. We will begin by considering some of the pre-colonial encounters between African and European societies during the era of American chattel slavery. The course will then examine the writings of Black intellectuals and organizers in the Americas who helped lay the foundation for Pan-Africanism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will then return to the African continent and consider the ideas of theorists and political leaders associated with numerous African independence movements during the era of decolonization. The course will also consider expressions of Pan-Africanism articulated by African-American women and men who organized through political formations like the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Afrika. It will end with a discussion of more recent expressions of Pan-Africanism including the emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States. Throughout the course, we will consider how race, class, gender, religion, coloniality, notions of African Diasporic connectivity, struggles for self-determination, and third-world solidarities have all helped shape conceptions of Pan-Africanism over time.  (All readings will be made available through canvas. Students will not be expected to purchase any books for the course. Page numbers for assigned readings are subject to change at any time during the quarter. Students will be given advanced notice of any such changes.)
Days: MO WE  11:00-12:20 PM

This class focuses on the long history of violence against African American women and their bodies in the United States.  For African American women questions about the rights to their own bodies did not end with the abolition of slavery.  Rather African American women endured acts of intimate violence during their long journey to “freedom.”   Often, relying on only themselves and other women in their communities, African American women faced down these forms of oppression. In doing so, they forged a legacy and developed strategies that were often radical and liberatory.  This class investigates this complicated history by using the words, actions, and change brought on by Black women from slavery to the present.

Same as AFAM 138
Days: TU TH  03:00-04:20 PM