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| AFAM 40C | AFRICAN AMERICN III | MCCLURE, D. | This course seeks to explore the complexity that constitutes the contours of Blackness as a site for collective identity, political empowerment, and social justice. Using film documentary, music, as well as history and theory, this course will examine a multiplicity of Black identities and their respective relationships to power, racial oppression, and
resistance. In doing so, we will explore Blackness and its relationship to a broad social, political and cultural field that includes but is not limited to art, queer theory, gender and class iterations, diasporic imaginations and internationalism. In particular, we will examine emergence of blackness as a banner of political mobilization in the writings and statements of various black intellectuals, activists, and artists across the twentieth century. Moreover, we will also think comparatively about other regions of racial inequality and with an eye to the construction of the global racial hierarchy that has come to dominance over this centuries-long period under the rubric of "Modernity."
The course requirements will be attendance and participation, a popular culture essay of
one's choosing, a midterm and a final. There will be two required textbooks: Nikki
Giovanni, Gemini (1971) and and Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai, Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (2009)."
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| AFAM 128 | WOMEN OF COLOR | KIM, K. | The course offers an introduction to the history of women of color to examine the limits to its politics of solidarity. Emerging from black feminism and in opposition to the institutionalized racism within second-wave feminism, the late twentieth century movement of black and non-black feminists of color mobilized around the call for diversity and unity. The course examines: (1) the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality that ground women of color feminisms’ integrated analyses of power; (2) differences of positionality among women of color; and (3) the alliances and conflicts among women of color that arise in their attempts to forge solidarity.
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| AFAM 134A | CARIB HISTORY I | JAMES, W. | Exploration of the history of the archipelago from pre-Columbian times to the end of slavery; examining the impact of European colonization, decimation of the indigenous populations, African slavery, resistance, and emancipation; the unity and diversity of experience in region. Same as African American Studies 134A. |
| AFAM 138 | ASAM & AFAM RELATNS | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as AFAM 138, History 152B. This course will explore the comparative and often connected history of Asian Americans and African Americans in the United States, with particular emphasis on the contemporary era. Themes will include labor, community formation, political mobilization, and cultural expression. Requirements will be a 5-page paper, midterm, final exam, and engaged class participation. |
| AFAM 144 | AFRO-FUTURISM I&II | JENKINS JR., U. | This course will explore various African-American artistic engagements with cultural and philosophical traditions that have evolved into the development of an Afro-futurist aesthetic. An examination of how linkage to ancient African belief systems and science and technology has emerged into an artistic expression of freedom. The course will examine a variety of disciplines in the arts: literature, music and the visual arts; with an emphasis based upon the social implications African-American Woman.
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| AFAM 152 | AFRICAN AMER POLTCS | TATE, K. | In this course, students examine the politics and strategic vision of African Americans in order to gain a broader perspective of the American political process. Topics can vary, and include a review of the major developments in African American politics, including the civil rights movement and Black presidential bids, the continuing problem of racism, American public policy, as well as the responsiveness of key governing institutions, such as the courts and the U.S. Congress, to Black political interests.
Students are required to write four papers for this course. |
| AFAM 154 | HIP HOP CULTURE | DAULATZAI, S. | With Nas’s landmark 1994 album Illmatic as our guide, this course will utilize film, video, documentary and of course music, to explore the ways in which hip-hop culture has become a powerful tool to probe the larger American landscape. In doing so, we will use Illmatic as a lens to better understand hip-hop and not only the history that made it, but also the history that it made. So that while this course is about exploring hip-hop through Illmatic, it’s also about exploring America through Illmatic, offering us the possibility to explore the fertile ground and volatile minefield that surround it: the post-Civil Rights and Black Power era, the shifting sands of race and the emergence of the global economy, the guerilla artistry around media so central to hip-hop, the changing marketplace and hyper-commodification of the culture, questions around gender and sexuality, art and aesthetics, and also hip-hop’s enduring ability to speak truth to power. |
| AFAM 158 | RACE ÐNICITY III | HUIE, K. | Identity, Diversity, and the Multicultural Movement (Advocacy, Allies, and Activism) is Part Three of the Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness and Community Harmony Program (R.E.A.C.H.) and RACE and ETHNICITY III. This is the final part of a three-quarter course designed to provide students thorough knowledge and history about how privilege, power, and oppression shaped and continues to shape individuals, society, and the state of education; an understanding of the socio-political system’s operation in the United States with respect to the treatment of marginalized groups in society; analytical skills to acknowledge and examine the state of global, national, and community injustices; and the abilities to communicate cross-culturally, facilitate constructive discussion, and provide educational moments for others within the campus and surrounding community.
Readings for the course include chapters from Adams, et al. (2000) Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, and Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism that focus on liberation and being an agent of social change. Course assignments and grades include reflection papers and a group project called the “Deconstruction Zone,” a multifaceted, multimedia tour designed to challenge people’s ideas and perceptions dealing with oppression. Students will also be required to produce a video project as the focal point of the class-learning imperative, which will draw upon and showcase students’ analytical and creative strengths. The videos will present a contemporary issue (case study) related to diversity or social justice and is relevant for a college campus.
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| AFAM 163 | BLACK HARLEM TO1990 | JAMES, W. | Exploration of the origins and development of the world's most famous black community. The course pays particular attention to the social and economic conditions of the community over the course of a century, and examines the remarkable political and cultural history of this black and cosmopolitan community. |