| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFAM 40A | AFRICAN AMERICAN I | MUTERE, M | This first course of the three-part [AfAm 40] series will provide a critical interdisciplinary overview of African-American Studies. It will focus on the origins, scope, significance, and inter-relatedness of the academic, cultural and social spheres of the American and global theaters in which Africans and their descendants have been actively engaged in an epic historical odyssey. Narratives and strategies of survival and resistance against the adversarial, dehumanizing and exploitative twin systems of slavery and colonialism will be examined from a culturally-centered perspective, providing students with a critical and corrective understanding of the considerable African-American role in the forward flow of U.S. and human history and development as a multicultural project. |
| AFAM 112B | HIST/MEM/ID-AFAMLIT | KEIZER, A | Examines individual literary forms and/or authors, as well as movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Explores how black literary practices represent the conditions of modern subjectivities and environments. |
| AFAM 143 | BLACK POP MUSIC 1 | MUTERE, M. | Black Popular Music tells the story of how African-American cultural agency has captivated and cultivated the popular imagination worldwide through effective applications of oral communication and traditions. This course will examine genres such as R&B, rock, soul, funk, and hip-hop as manifestations of this dynamic cultural legacy. The performativity, delivery mechanisms and style of specific artists within these genres will be considered, as well as the philosophical tensions that exist between an art-for-life’s-sake oral-aesthetic mission and its interface with an acquisitive industry that manages the communication gateways into the marketplace. Students will reflect on the historical and social significance of African-American culture and of its humanizing agency through a culturally-centered appreciation of Black Popular Music. |
| AFAM 157 | CRITICAL RACE THRY | HAN, S. | Introduction to Critical Race Theory and key American cases on racial inequality. Using this literature, examines the possibilities and pitfalls of legal claims of race, gender, and sexuality discrimination in the age of colorblindness. Same as CRM/LAW C178. Restriction: Upper-division students only. |
| AFAM 158 | PRISONS & PUBLIC ED | SOJOYNER, D. | Provides students with an opportunity to pursue advanced work in African American studies from one or more social science approaches (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and others). Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary. |
| AFAM 162W | BLACK PROTEST TRADN | WILDERSON, F | History and discourses of the black protest tradition. Traces emergence of black protest against racial slavery and white supremacy from the early colonial period to present and the complex elaboration of identity politics within black communities in the twentieth century. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Restriction: Upper-division students only. |