| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| AFAM 10 | GOSPEL CHOIR | STAFF | A performance group that works with the music and culture of the gospel tradition. This is a two-unit class that requires attendance and participation as well as one short music review. Same as Music 7, Tut A. |
| AFAM 40A | AFRICAN AMERICAN I | FOOTE, T.W. | |
| AFAM 110 | ASNAM/AFAM RELATION | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| AFAM 110 | BLACK POLITICS | TATE, K. | |
| AFAM 111A | AFAM ART: 1650-1900 | WILSON, J.A. | Architecture, crafts, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, and photography by North Americans of African descent, from colonial times through the late 19th century. Processes of cultural adjustment, exchange, and resistance; problems of patronage and aesthetic evaluation, as well as the effects of gender, class, color, and regional differences among African Americans, will be examined. Same as Art History 164A, Lec A. |
| AFAM 130 | LIT, POL&GEND AFRIC | MALKKI, L. | |
| AFAM 139W | BLACK PROTEST TRADN | FOOTE, T.W. | Students will be introduced to the history and discourse of the black protest tradition, from the earliest slave revolts to the Los Angeles uprising. This course will trace the emergence of black protest against racial slavery and white supremacy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the complex elaboration of identity politics within black communities during the twentieth century. Some of the texts students will be required to analyze include the protest literature of David Walker, Martin Delaney, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X., Martin Luther King, Jr., Audre Lorde, and Derrick Bell. Writing assignments will consist of three short papers 3-5 pages each as well as a midterm and a final exam. Prerequisite: completion of lower-division writing and upper-division standing. This class will serve as the upper-division writing requirement for the major in African-American Studies. Same as History 139W, Lec A. |
| AFAM 150 | HARLEM REN SOPHIATN | MASILELA, N. | The course will investigate and analyze some of these seminal United States cultural and literary influences on South Africa. On the cultural plane, of essential importance will be an understanding of how the concepts of the New Negro and New African were formulated and came into being, as well as the ‘construction’ of the literary periods of the Harlem Renaissance and the Sophiatown Renaissance. Within each literary period, the complexly different intersection and combination of literary modernity and literary modernism will be theorized. Each literary period had a peculiarly differential structure of generic forms. Despite this, several parallels between writers will be discussed: say, between Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head, W.E.B. Du Bois and H.I.E. Dhlomo, Langston Hughes and Rive Rive and Ezekiel Mphahlele, Rudolph Fisher and Arthur Maimane, George Schuyler and Casey Motsisi, and etc. Several of the assigned books are anthologies. Fredric Jameson has recently observed: “The eclipse of avant-gardes (including political ones) has often been taken to be more than accidental characteristic of the postmodern turn; less often remarked is the concomitant substitution---for the great avant-garde manifestos and indeed for the very conception of the great individual master text or statement---of the anthology, the collective symposium, as the generic expression of the emergence of new concerns and new fields or objects of study.” Clearly, the relation between United States and South Africa concerning modernity and modernism is an emergent new concern of intellectual endeavor. Course work will require attendance, discussion, a midterm paper (5 pages) and a final paper (10 pages). Same as English 105, Lec. B. |
| AFAM 150 | RACE & ETHNICITY I | GONZALEZ, A. | |
| AFAM 160 | ISSUES IN BLACK ART | O\'GRADY, L. | Will study the critical and formal engagement of contemporary African diaspora visual artists with political and cultural history and will examine the implications of their practice for mainstream studio art and cultural studies. Grades will be based on three in-class quizzes, plus midterm and final papers. |