AFAM Course Descriptions for 2023-2024

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CourseTitleInstructorDescription
AFAM 40CAFRICAN AMERICN IIIWILLOUGHBY-HER, T.Introduction to theories of racial blackness in the modern world, with emphasis on developments in British colonies and U.S. Traces emergence of blackness as term of collective identity, social organization, and political mobilization.
AFAM 115BLACK ARTS PRAXISPRICE, Z.This course explores the conjunction between art as political practice and the creation of a Black public sphere
AFAM 128FANON & FEMINISMWILLOUGHBY-HER, T.This course will examine several key works by Frantz Fanon and his reception and deployment by radical black feminism, Arab-American feminism, Algerian feminism, African feminisms, queer of color formations in Europe, African Gender Studies, and Third World feminism.
AFAM 13819C BLK MOVEMENTSDE VERA, S.This course explores Black organizing traditions that continue to inform movements today. Students will familiarize themselves with the strategies employed by nineteenth-century Black activists, organizers, enslaved and formerly enslaved people to undermine slavery, challenge racist legal codes, sustain their communities, and mobilize politically. By looking at insurrections, emigration, vigilance and equal rights committees, the Colored Conventions movement, Black women’s clubs, and many more, this course highlights how the Black radical tradition shaped the long nineteenth century.
AFAM 143HIP HOP RELIGIONCARTER, J.While for many people, hip-hop and religion are incompatible, this course challenges this assumption. With the tools of black studies, we will explore hip-hop (mainly the music, but also film) as a location within popular culture to critically think about religion, politics, and race (which includes gender and sexuality).
AFAM 155BLACK POL THOUGHTPROSPER, M.This course surveys the political ideologies and economic policies of foundational and influential leaders in the Caribbean and Africa. Breaking the regions into four historical moments (late-colonial, post-colonial; Structural adjustments, Post-Neoliberal moment), we examine policies from key political leaders in Africa and the Caribbean that supported, challenged, and/or initiated changes in the global structures of powers.
AFAM 155BLACK INDIGENOUSHARVEY, S.In this course we explore the histories, politics, and imaginaries of black indigeneity in both the Americas and Africa. We examine colonialism, chattel slavery, and imperialism as forces that shape who counts as indigenous and why.
AFAM 157CRITICAL RACE THRYROMERO, M.
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 198DIRECTED GRP/STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
AFAM 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGWILLOUGHBY-HER, T.