| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| AFAM 40A | AFRICAN AMERICAN I | COOKS CUMBO, B. | An undergraduate survey course. Students will be introduced to the main contours of the African-American experience, from the importation of Africans to the Americas to the mid-twentieth century. This course will discuss the unique history of African American people with a particular focus on strategies of resistance and survival. This course is the first in a three-part series for the Program in African American Studies. |
| AFAM 111B | CONTEMP AFAM ART | COOKS CUMBO, B. | Same as AH164B. In this course students will study artworks created by African Americans beginning chronologically with government-sponsored art programs in the 1930's and ending with contemporary art of the twenty-first century. |
| AFAM 158 | RACE AND CLASS | SEXTON, J. | This course will examine the intersections of race and class for explaining the social, political, and economic position of blacks in the United States, past and present. We will analyze the sources of continued residential segregation and the growing racial wealth gap between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era. We will also reframe popular notions like "the black middle class" and "the black underclass" from a critical perspective. A broad historical sketch frames the course material, but discussions will focus on contemporary issues including: the rise of mass imprisonment since the 1970s, the dismantling of welfare since the 1980s, the repeal of affirmative action since the 1990s, the continuing devastation of Hurricane Katrina since 2005, and the ongoing subprime mortgage crisis. |
| AFAM 162W | BLACK PROTEST TRADN | WILDERSON, F. | An upper-division undergraduate course. This course will introduce students to the discourse of the Black protest tradition, from 19th century slave uprisings to the Los Angeles uprising of 1992. This is not a history of the Black Protest Tradition but rather a course which traces the emergence of resistance against slavery and anti-Black racism by examining key rhetorical moments in the complex elaboration of Black political thought. Writing assignments will consist of three short papers (3,000 words each) as well as a midterm. This class will serve as the upper division writing requirement for the major in African-American Studies. |