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| AFAM 40B | AFRICAN AMERICAN II | SEXTON, J. | This course offers a critical introduction to the history of modern racial thinking - both concepts of race and ideologies of racism - in the western hemisphere, with particular emphasis on its development in the British North American colonies and the United States. We will trace its emergence in religious, moral, aesthetic, and scientific writings; in legal statutes and legislation; in political debate and public policy; and in the entertainments of popular culture. More importantly, we will discuss its relationship to the material contexts of racial oppression. First and foremost: the transatlantic enslavement of Africans and the vast system of plantation slavery throughout the Americas alongside the conquest of land and the genocide of indigenous peoples. But also: “Manifest Destiny” and westward expansion, the Mexican American War, the international abolitionist movement and the Civil War, Jim Crow segregation and the high tide of lynching, the Spanish-American War and the spread of US imperialism, the regulation of immigration from Asia and Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, military intervention from WW I to Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, and the continuing assaults on movements for human rights and social justice in the age of globalization. Though there will be a clear focus on the specificities of racial formation in the United States and the centrality of anti-black racism therein, we will also think comparatively about other regions of racial inequality and always with an eye to the construction of the global racial hierarchy that has come to dominance over this centuries-long period. We will read for quality not quantity and with a premium on engaged class participation and well-informed discussion. Several short writing assignments will round out the engagement with course materials. |
| AFAM 115 | AFAM & PHOTOGRAPHY | COOKS CUMBO, B. | This course explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted and have depicted the world around them through photography. Students will examine the history of photography in relationship to African American culture through a variety of media from early daguerreotype processes to digital imagery. The course focuses on African American photographers' experiences, perspectives, and strategies for representation in visual culture. Students will use course readings and class discussions as the primary means of investigating the ideas discussed. |
| AFAM 118 | MUSLIM CINEMA | DAULATZAI, S. | |
| AFAM 118 | AFAM WOMEN VIS ARTS | COOKS CUMBO, B. | Same as Art Hist 164C and Womn St 189. This course addresses the historical depictions of African American women in American art and popular culture. Students will explore the history of visual art created by African American women from the 19th century through contemporary art in a variety of media including textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. The course focuses on African American women's experiences, perspectives, and strategies for self-representation in the visual arts. Students will use course readings and class discussions as the primary means of investigating the ideas discussed. |
| AFAM 128 | QUEER LIVES&KNOWLDG | SCHEPER, J. | |
| AFAM 137 | AFRICAN DIASPORA | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | This lecture course examines the causes and consequences of the multiple diasporas of African peoples since the sixteenth century in the Atlantic world, especially the Americas and Europe. In it we shall focus on representations and key debates about diaspora in the era of the triangular slave trade, massive urban migration and industrialization, and the era of contemporary globalization. As decisive turns were/are made in the world economy that could not have occurred without the transfer of technically skilled and philosophically sophisticated peoples as laborers, reproducers of a labor force, and (re)producers of aesthetic, cultural, political, and philosophical institutions we shall consider the complicated, contradictory, and yet coherent productions of blackness and black identities. We begin with the life of a freedman in the shipping industry that was the backbone of the modern world economy, turn our attention to the African origins of commercial agriculture in the colonial United States and then continue forward to the contemporary African engagement with global consumer-based economies in the Americas. Along the way we consider how memory, self-representation, revolt, negotiation with and barely surviving state violence constitute critical nodes of systematic, organized, and everyday resistance.
Our attention to the African diaspora in its contemporary manifestations enables us to more closely attend to the shifts in the meaning of slavery, exile, poverty, homelessness, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, racial identity, mobility, authenticity and their relationship to racial capitalism and gendered economies. You will have the opportunity to consider how these experiences shift cultural and technological capital.
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| AFAM 153 | AF AM PSYCHOLOGY | PARHAM, T. | The course will begin with an historical overview of the development of Black psychology and the African American frame of reference and continue with a discussion of topic areas including, but not limited to, personality development, psychological assessment, issues in education, Black family, Black mental health and mental health illness, and the role of the Black psychologist in the community. |
| AFAM 158 | RACE & ETHNICITY II | HUIE, K. | Race and Ethnicity in America II is the second part of the Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness and Community Harmony Program. This course will engage the connections between "race", gender, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. We will explore the meaning of theories such as "double consciousness" (DuBois), colonialism (Fanon), and structures of power inherent in a society comprised of dominant and subordinate cultures. |
| AFAM 162W | BLACK PROTEST TRADN | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | Some feminist critics have raised serious concerns with the writings of Frantz Fanon primarily on charges of ill-consideration of the impacts of nationalism on the lives and survival of women. Indeed, the question of nationalism and is links to misogyny and control over female reproduction has been also raised. Other feminist critics namely Third World and Black feminist critics have insisted on holding on to Fanon in part because his attention to culture, neo-colonialism, spirituality, detention and incarceration, and violence create greater visibility for the role of women as political actors, political agents, and revolutionaries. The Fanon that has been touted, rejected, reproduced, and engaged by feminists of all stripes is a complicated voice among many in the black protest tradition. 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, and Third World feminism.
By the end of this course, the student will:
1) have a greater appreciation for the black protest tradition
2) be more familiar with radical black feminism and the work of Frantz Fanon
This course is an African American Studies upper division writing course. It is meant to coordinate with other required writing courses. This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement. The prerequisite for this course is a lower division writing course.
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