| AFAM 138 | AMERICAN SLAVERY ON FILM | THOMAS, A. | Examines how slavery is understood and remembered in American popular culture through analysis of Hollywood films (one screened each week in class). Considers how different director's and author's perspectives (from white supremacists through black cultural nationalists), different times of production, and different historical events have influenced how filmmakers and their audiences have negotiated the meaning of slavery on personal, racial, and national levels. Focuses on a different specific theme of slavery each week - The Middle Passage or Resistance, for example. Considers what purpose films about slavery serve in society. Provides a background of the history of slavery, as well how slavery has been remembered from abolition until the present. Same as History 150. (VII) |
| AFAM 144 | ASIAN AMERICANS AND HIP HOP & POPULAR CULTURE | VILLEGAS, M. | Examines the contested membership of Asian Americans within African American musical and dance traditions and interrogates the ways in which Asian Americans are configured and how they make themselves legible within the broader terrain of American popular culture. Contextualizes supposed Asian American and African American incommensurabilities by engaging debates on cultural appropriation, the limits of coalition, anti-blackness, and Orientalism. |