| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| AFAM 10 | GOSPEL CHOIR | MCCOOL, M. | 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. |
| AFAM 40A | AFRICAN AMERICAN I | STAFF | An undergraduate survey course, this interdisciplinary introduction to African-American studies focuses on racial formation, black subjectivity, and the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Writing Requirement: The students will be required to write answers to essay questions in a midterm (30%) and a final examination (50%). Also, students must attend and participate in discussion sections (20%). |
| AFAM 130 | BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE | MASILELA, N. | This course is designated \"modern\" because it will concern itself with only written forms of literary representation. These expressive forms largely emerged from the encounter between Europe and Africa - the domination of African history by European history. Another consequence is that this literature is written in English rather than in the indigenous African languages of S. Africa (Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, etc). Given the consequences, we will examine to what extent this literature was a discourse on history. Since the authors of the texts we will be examining (including South African Literature and Culture: Rediscover of the Ordinary by Ndebele, Mhudi by Plaatje, Mine Boy by Abrahams, Down Second Avenue by Mphahlele, and others) are considered premier intellectuals, this course will also attempt to trace a particular intellectual history of S. Africa. In addition, since African modernity in S. Africa is inconceivable without African-American modernity, this course will also preoccupy itself with transAtlantic (\'black Atlantic\') relations. Grading: attendance is crucial. 3 essays (no more than 10 pages each) during the course of the quarter either on the books themselves or on critical issues raised by the books. |
| AFAM 150 | BLACK IMAGES | WILSON, J. | A lecture course on the politics of vision in representations & self-representations of African Americans, as seen in works ranging from Uncle Tom\'s Cabin to The Boondocks. |
| AFAM 160 | BLACK FEMALE BODY | O\'GRADY, L. | A seminar course employing material from visual art, literature, and critical theory to examine the Black female body as an aesthetic and
political location, a site of resistance and subversion as well as of myth, desire, and fantasy. |