| AFAM 138 | CIVIL RIGHTS TO BLACK POWER: SECOND RECONSTRUCTION IN AMER | LATNER, T. | From Civil Rights to Black Power: The Second Reconstruction in America
Surveys the "long" Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the United States, from World War II through the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s. With Manning Marable's acclaimed Race, Reform, and Rebellion as our guide and the Black Radical Tradition as the emphasis, explores the major themes, theories, people, and events that are central to the study of Black political movements during the era. Makes frequent forays into popular culture to examine protest traditions through music, poetry, and film. While focusing on the United States, employs a global view of the topic, following key individuals to Algeria, Cuba, China, France, Ghana and Mexico to illuminate the transnational linkages between Black liberation in the U.S. and developments abroad. Same as History 150. (VII) |
| AFAM 142 | A PLACE OF THEIR OWN: MINORITY WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS | OZIEBLO, B. | A Place of Their Own: Minority Women Playwrights
Women playwrights of whatever color are at a disadvantage when it comes to getting their plays onto the stage (just over 12% of plays performed in New York were by women in 2009) and yet audiences are composed mostly of women who are keen to see their concerns and "trifles" (as in Susan Glaspell's well-known play Trifles) on the stage. Looks at a selection of plays written by American women dramatists in order to explore the themes of hybridity, assimilation, and identity creation. Particular emphasis given to generational differences and to the rejection of the status of "the other." The contribution of these dramatists to American theater will also be considered, particularly the use of innovative theatrical devices and the significance of the rejection of the traditional format of the well-made play. |