| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| AFAM 40B | AFRICAN AMERICAN II | SEXTON, J. | This course offers a critical introduction to the history of modern racial thinking in Western society, with particular emphasis on developments of the British North American colonies and the United States. |
| AFAM 111A | AFAM ART:1619-1929 | COOKS CUMBO, B. | This course is part one of a two part investigation of the history and aesthetics of African American art with a particular focus on the politics of African American representation. Beginning chronologically with the arrival of Africans to the British colonies in 1619 and ending with the cultural phenomenon of the New Negro Movement, students will study African American cultural environments, and the objects of material culture (i.e. slave houses, jugs, quilts, furniture) and artworks created by African Americans. Course readings and class discussions are the primary means of investigating the topics discussed. |
| AFAM 112B | BLKS W/ BKS & GUNS | WILDERSON, F. | This course will embark upon a rhetorical analysis of memoirs and autobiographies written by Black activists of the 1960s and 70s. We will examine the political evolution of pacifist protest and armed struggle through the lens of a literary genre that is commonly thought of as a "personal"--rather than political--narrative. We will be led by our investigation of what Margo V. Perkins calls "expectations" of the activist memoir or autobiography; in an attempt to clarify the differences between the "traditional" memoir and the Black activist memoir. |
| AFAM 115 | RACE/REPRESENTATION | DAULATZAI, S. | This course will explore issues of race and its manifestations within visual culture, primarily mainstream Hollywood film, independent cinema and documentary. In doing so, we will examine issues of power and its relationships to representation across different historical periods and within specific contexts, as well as the ways in which race intersects with gender, class, sexuality and nationhood. Films may include The Godfather, Babel, Traffic, The Searchers, The Siege, Precious, Avatar, and others. This course has a non-refundable Lab Fee. |
| AFAM 138 | CMPRTV SLAVE REBELN | MILLWARD, J. | same as History 150
This course investigates slave resistance, agency, and revolution during key “slave rebellions” in the Atlantic World. The main course objective is to provide students with an overview of classic and more recent scholarship on topics presented in the course. Of particular importance is the relationship between individual vs. community resistance, and forms of resistance available to slaves based upon their locale, gender and status in the enslaved community. Students will work to isolate criteria as to what makes a "successful" slave rebellion. We will approach slave resistance and rebellion from a Diasporic perspective.
Students will develop critical and analytical skills by doing oral and written assignments, some of which will be comparative in nature. The reading assignments promise to provide students with a theoretical overview of classic debates in African American history/studies such as class conflict, gendered experiences and collective action. This class is designed for students who have taken other African American Studies or History courses as well as those who have a general interest in the course material. |
| AFAM 153 | AF AM PSYCHOLOGY | PARHAM, T. | The course will begin with a historical overview of the development of the discipline of Black psychology and the African American frame of reference and continue with a discussion on 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 156 | RACE/CLASS/GENDER | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | This course examines the violent incorporation of Africa within European modernity especially through the paradigmatic invention of the concept of women, womanhood, gender discourses and feminist responses. We will consider African feminist responses to and engagement in the discourses of Pan-Africanism, African Nationalisms, Negritude, African Marxism, and/or African Socialism in juxtaposition to the forces of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism that restructure African history.
Additionally, this course will introduce students to critical questions about the role of slavery, empire, space, environment, work, health, and justice that reframe discussions about gender politics and African women. Taking up the limits of African diasporic frameworks and global sisterhood how does our scholarship about African societies and politics change when we center African feminists' definitions of race, class, and gender? |
| AFAM 158 | RACE & ETHNICITY II | HUIE, K. | Race and Ethnicity II (Diversity Social Justice, and the Multicultural Movement) is second quarter of the Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness and Community Harmony Program (R.E.A.C.H.) implemented through the Cross-Cultural Center. This course is 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; an increased level of awareness of how diversity affects working groups, leadership practices, and individual learning; and critical analytical skills to acknowledge and examine the state of global, national, and community injustices. |
| AFAM 163 | AF AM RSCH METHODS | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | This course will address the theories, tendencies, political methods, guiding strategies and goals of several key Black political thinkers and theorists on pressing contemporary social problems of gendered racial inequality in order to teach students about research methods in African American Studies. |