| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFAM 40B | AFRICAN AMERICAN II | SEXTON, J. | This course offers a critical introduction to the history of modern racial thinking in Western society, with emphasis on the British North American colonies and the United States. We trace its emergence in religious, philosophical, and scientific writing; in legal statute and legislation; in political debate and public policy; and in the entertainments of popular culture. More importantly, we discuss its relationship to the material contexts of racial oppression: first and foremost, the enslavement of Africans and the vast system of racial slavery throughout the Atlantic world. Though there is a focus on the specificity of racial formation in the United States and the centrality of anti-black racism, we also think comparatively about the construction of global racial hierarchy since the 15th century CE. We read for quality, not quantity, with a focus on engaged class participation. |
| AFAM 111B | CONTEMP AFAM ART | COOKS, B. | This course is a study of art by African Americans with a particular focus on the politics of representation. Beginning chronologically with government sponsored artworks in the 1930s, students will discuss artworks created in a variety of forms including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and new media. |
| AFAM 112A | AF AM ESSAY | CHANDLER, N. | |
| AFAM 118 | AFRICAN DIASPORA | MILLER, R. | |
| AFAM 128 | AFRICAN FEMINISMS | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | Introduce students to concepts of gender and feminist activist movements generated and led by and about women and gender outlaws from the African continent and the context in which rebellion, social protest and transformation occurs. We will explore a range of texts: poetry collections, fiction, prison memoirs, social commentaries, films, and cultural and social histories. We will engage heavily (almost exclusively) on South African materials by poet Koleka Putuma; filmmakers Bev Ditsie and Rehad Desai; photographer Zanele Muholi; feminist cultural studies scholars Pumla Gqola & Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden; and freedom fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Prominent exceptions include Ghanaian classic, Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo; Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s tour de force Black Girl; and British Zimbabwean director and screenwriter, Ingrid Sinclair’s prized Flame. |
| AFAM 138 | IDEA OF AMERICA I | CHANDLER, N. | Employing a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of American society, culture and history, from the 15th century to the early 20th century, this course will provide a new introduction to the very idea and the founding history of America. With touchstone attention to Asia (notably India, Japan, and China) in the idea of America, the diverse sources of its people, African, European, Native American, and more, this course takes the history of matters African American as a central guide. Modern slavery, and then too modern imperialism, modern colonialism, and the coming of the great modern revolutions are central references. The central or guiding question of the course is the doubled matter of the dignity and the denigration of the “human.” The course aims to cultivate a perspective that is at once historical and “cultural,” and thus also comparative, in all of its practices. |
| AFAM 144 | DIASPORA DRAMAS | NOLAND, C. | |
| AFAM 152 | AFRICAN AMER POLTCS | PHOENIX, D. | |
| AFAM 154 | CAPITALISM&BLK/FEMT | HARVEY, S. | This course introduces students to the study and critiques of capitalism within Black feminist thought. We will study capitalism as a political economy that emerges through colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade and the persistent chattel slavery within the Americas. We will explore the ways capitalism gives rise to the ideas of freedom, property, the racialized and gendered subject, and the human. In the second part of the class we will discuss the responses to capitalism from prominent black feminist thinkers. At the end of the course, we ask whether and under what conditions might we live otherwise. |
| AFAM 156 | S AFRCN SOCIAL IDS | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | Introduce students to concepts of gender and feminist activist movements generated and led by and about women and gender outlaws from the African continent and the context in which rebellion, social protest and transformation occurs. We will explore a range of texts: poetry collections, fiction, prison memoirs, social commentaries, films, and cultural and social histories. We will engage heavily (almost exclusively) on South African materials by poet Koleka Putuma; filmmakers Bev Ditsie and Rehad Desai; photographer Zanele Muholi; feminist cultural studies scholars Pumla Gqola & Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden; and freedom fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Prominent exceptions include Ghanaian classic, Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo; Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s tour de force Black Girl; and British Zimbabwean director and screenwriter, Ingrid Sinclair’s prized Flame. |
| AFAM 159 | PRISONS AND PUB ED | SOJOYNER, D. | |
| AFAM 163 | POLICING BLACK LIVE | HARVEY, S. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | COOKS CUMBO, B. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | HARVEY, S. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | MURILLO, J. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | SEXTON, J. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | WILDERSON, F. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | WILLOUGHBY-HER, T. | |
| AFAM 198 | DIRECTED GRP/STUDY | RAMIREZ-STAPLE, M. |