| AFST 170-01 |
African Civilizations to 1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 170-01. This course provides an overview to the political, social, and ecological history of Africa. We will examine the peopling of the continent, the origins of agriculture, the growth of towns and the development of metal technology. Written sources before the 1400s are almost nonexistent for most of Africa, and so we will use archaeological and linguistic sources. The geographic focus of the course will be the Middle Nile, Aksum in Ethiopia, the Sudanic states in West Africa, Kongo in Central Africa, the Swahili states of the East African coast, and Zimbabwe and KwaZulu in Southern Africa. We will also examine the Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope.This course is cross-listed as HIST 170.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 313 |
| AFST 200-01 |
Approaches to Africana Studies
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
This course will investigate the importance of conceptual analysis and the development of concepts in the theoretical and textual research of Africana Studies. Thus, the course will focus on various interpretive frameworks and approaches to organizing and understanding Africana Studies, including but not limited to the African model, Afrocentricity, diaspora model, critical race theory, post-modernism, and post colonialism.
Prerequisite: 100.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 07 |
| AFST 220-01 |
The Civil Rights Movement: North and South
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 211-02.
The post-World War II movement for African Americans' civil rights is often considered solely in terms of Southern-based groups and events. This class will explode the myth that the civil rights movement was confined to the South by exploring the national character of inequalities, segregation and the movement for Black freedom. With special attention to the years 1945-1975, this class will consider how segregation formed differently in Birmingham versus Alabama, how the fight for school de-segregation included battles in both Little Rock and New York, and how gender shaped protest politics and tactics of the movement across the nation. Key topics will include Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and ideas of leadership; key campaigns in Birmingham, New York, Detroit and elsewhere; important groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and how ideas about masculinity and femininity shaped the movement. An important thread throughout the class will be understanding how racial inequalities came to be "baked into" the structures and systems that shape life in the United States - from housing to education to employment. We'll learn about structural racism through the prism of Black resistance to it.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| AFST 220-02 |
African Government & Politics
Instructor: Ed Webb
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 252-01. An introduction to the politics of contemporary Africa. After reviewing the large historical, international, and socio-economic patterns of African politics, the course examines in greater depth a sampling of national political systems and salient regional or continent-wide themes.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 103 |
| AFST 221-01 |
African Americans Since Slavery
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 273-01. Focuses on the history of Americans of African ancestry in the years following the American Civil War, which ended in 1865. The course examines several important transformations of African Americans as a people. In the first, we consider the transition from slavery to a nominal but highly circumscribed "freedom," which ended with the destruction of Reconstruction governments in the South. We consider the institution-building and community-building processes among African Americans, and the development of distinctive elite and folk cultures among various classes of black people. We examine the Great Migration north and west between 1900 and 1920, and the urbanization of what had been a predominately rural people. Fifth, we consider the differential impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the New Deal and World War II on African Americans, and the creation of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's - 1980's. This course is cross-listed as HIST 273. Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| AFST 227-01 |
It’s a Hip Hop World: The Rise and Implications of Hip Hop beyond the US
Instructor: Nadia Alahmed
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MUAC 210-01. This course is an introduction to critical Hip Hop studies from the genesis of the culture in Black America in the 1970s until the global phenomenon it is today. Focusing on the Hip Hop production of marginalized peoples, the course will explore the nature of cultural and political processes which take place when Hip Hop integrates into the dominant or indigenous culture and music. We will discuss the meaning and implications of authenticity in Hip Hop in the face of commercialization, cultural syncretism, and identity politics. We will address issues of appropriation that are embedded in these cultural processes. Finally, we will trace the aesthetic, cultural, and political evolutions of Hip hop on a global scale. Some of the questions the course poses are: how did Hip Hop evolve through the years within the global context? How are the defining features of this culture and music shaped within different marginalized groups and national borders? What unique musical, cultural, and political features make Hip Hop the most popular genre of resistance and self-affirmation around the world? What are some of Hip Hops contributions to global social change movements? In this Hip Hop world, which track will you play next?
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 204 |
| AFST 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 272-01 and LALC 272-01.
During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as HIST 272 and LALC 272. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| AFST 284-01 |
Ecological History of Africa
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 284-01. This course provides an introduction to the ecological history of Africa. We will focus in some detail on demography, the domestication of crops and animals, climate, the spread of New World crops (maize, cassava, cocoa), and disease environments from the earliest times to the present. Central to our study will be the idea that Africa's landscapes are the product of human action. Therefore, we will examine case studies of how people have interacted with their environments. African ecology has long been affected indirectly by decisions made at a global scale. Thus we will explore Africa's engagement with imperialism and colonization and the global economy in the twentieth century. The course ends with an examination of contemporary tensions between conservation and economic development.This course is cross-listed as HIST 284.
Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 313 |
| AFST 310-01 |
Across the Windward Passage: Cuban Haitian Entanglements in the Early Twentieth Century
Instructor: Mariana Past
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-02 and SPAN 380-01. Through works of fiction, film, and poetry, this seminar examines the entangled histories, cultural, and spiritual traditions of Haiti and Cuba in the early to mid-twentieth century. How does cultural production reflect specific sites of struggle alongside larger sociopolitical concerns within communities whose livelihoods depend on the sugar industry? Where and how do instances of resistance, political, and cultural solidarity emerge? To what degree are boundaries blurred between languages, cultural traditions, and national identity discourses related to race, class, gender, and spiritual practices?
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 213 |
| AFST 320-01 |
Modern History of Policing and Incarceration in the US
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 311-01. The United States of America imprisons more of its residents than almost any other country in the world. How did mass incarceration come to define this country? In this class, we will explore this question by looking at the multiple ways that the US policed and incarcerated various groups throughout the 20th century. We will pay special attention to the ways that lawmakers, police and the courts have historically targeted African Americans, but we will also study how other people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, and workers were criminalized. A major learning goal for this class will be understanding that "deviance" and "crime" were constructed categories. We will consider how the meaning of these categories shifted over time and why. Major topics will include chain gang prisoner exploitation; eugenics, the psychiatric creation of "feeble-mindedness," and asylum incarceration; the criminalization of sex work, interracial relationships, labor organizing, and political dissent; jingoism, a "new" Yellow Peril, and Japanese internment; and outlawing drug use and mass incarceration. To gain a deeper understanding of how the criminal courts actually work, students on this class will participate in a court-watching program, for which everyone will receive training.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| AFST 320-02 |
Malcolm X
Instructor: Nadia Alahmed
Course Description:
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the life, thought and activism of the Black revolutionary Malcolm X. Examining his many lives, the seminar will highlight the evolution of his thought on Black liberation struggle, its tactics ideologies, and goals. The course will highlight the invaluable contributions Malcolm X made to religion, culture, art and politics on a global scale. It will engage multiple mediums- film, music, literature to provide complexity and nuance towards understanding of Malcolm Xs thought, politics and life-long struggle for freedom and justice.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| AFST 330-01 |
African American Women Writers
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 331-01. This course spans the African American literary tradition to examine the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's identities, voices, and roles within and outside of the Black community. Utilizing the intellectual premises of Black feminist, womanist/Africana womanist, and Black queer thoughts, we will analyze these writers' ideologies and representations of self-sovereignty, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and communalism. Moreover, we will consider their choice of genre to convey their perspectives and cultural commentaries. Pre-requisite: One AFST, US Diversity or WGSS course. Cross-listed as WGSS 331.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| AFST 400-01 |
Writing in Africana Studies
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
This course will build on experiences in the methods course. Students in this course continue research toward and writing of a senior thesis. The emphasis is on writing skills and course material; assignments link those skills to work in Africana Studies. Seniors in the major will work independently with the director of Africana Studies and a second faculty reader (representing a discipline closer to the senior's interest) to produce a lengthy paper or special project which focuses on an issue relevant to the student's concentration. Under the direction of the director of Africana Studies, students will meet collectively two or three times during the semester with the directors (and, if possible, other Africana Studies core and contributing faculty) to share bibliographies, research data, early drafts, and the like. This group will also meet at the end of the semester to discuss and evaluate final papers and projects.
Prerequisites: 100 and 200; four 200/300-level AFST approved courses (2 Africa, 2 Diaspora); three 300-level (in area of concentration).
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
ALTHSE 07 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 200-01 |
Prisons and Policing
Instructor: Anna Neumann
Course Description:
Currently, the U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other nation. If we count parole and probation, more than 5 million US-Americans live under surveillance and supervision of the criminal legal system. As of today, almost 2 million people live in prisons and jails. In this class we ask: How did we get here, how did incarceration become so ubiquitous in American society, and where are we going? Who has benefitted historically from a punitive society and who are the ones being punished?
Needless to say, prison and policing represent persistent and fundamental challenges to American society; both have engendered notable responses including calls for abolition and reform. Throughout the semester, we will discuss and examine what the institutions of prison and policing represent in the US-American context, what work is performed through these representations, and how organizational and community efforts have responded to these particular forms of state violence.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| AMST 200-02 |
Black Horror
Instructor: Nevil Jackson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-01. Horror films disturb our sense of peace. They terrify, shock, and alarm, provoking an unease that haunts the peripheries of our daily lives. Essentially, they tell us what, and whom, to fear. They are expressions of our deepest anxieties, and when examined critically, horror films can reveal societal and political concerns about race, gender, and class. So what happens when we look at the genre through the lens of Blackness in America? This course examines the history of Black representation in American horror films from the 1900s to the present. From D.W. Griffith's 1915 film Birth of a Nation to Ryan Coogler's 2025 Sinners, we'll explore the trajectory of the horror genre, how it has reflected America's anxieties, it's role in shaping perceptions of Blackness, and how Black horror films have evolved from representations of oppressive ideology to expressions of Black existential thought. Cross-listed with FMST 210. Additional time slot: Film screenings are on Wednesdays, 6pm to 9pm.
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06:00 PM-08:00 PM, W
ALTHSE 106
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 304 |
| AMST 303-01 |
On Becoming Human: Antiblackness, Fugitivity, and Utopia
Instructor: Anna Neumann
Course Description:
In 1994, two years after the Rodney King rebellion in Los Angeles, cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter published a scathing critique of public officials, the L.A. judicial system, and their routine use of the acronym N.H.I. According to Wynter, the acronym referred to any case involving young Black males from the inner-city. N.H.I. stands for no humans involved. This is just one of countless moments when in the U.S. Black people have been imagined and treated as non-beings. In our class, we parse theories of Antiblackness and their central tenet, that the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the making of modernity. We also dive into ideas of fugitivity, resistance, and refusal, all of which are urgent strategies by Black communities in response to Antiblackness and its various facets. Finally, we pull in concepts of Black utopias and radical refusal to learn about black quotidian practices and visions of community, sociality, and kinship that keep informing Black utopian thought.
This seminar course develops majors' knowledge of various theoretical approaches and research methods informing American Studies. The course will develop your research skills and require a significant writing project, bridging the 200-level core courses (201 and 202) and the senior seminar sequence (401 and 402).
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 110 |
| Courses Offered in FMST |
| FMST 210-01 |
Black Horror
Instructor: Nevil Jackson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-02. Horror films disturb our sense of peace. They terrify, shock, and alarm, provoking an unease that haunts the peripheries of our daily lives. Essentially, they tell us what, and whom, to fear. They are expressions of our deepest anxieties, and when examined critically, horror films can reveal societal and political concerns about race, gender, and class. So what happens when we look at the genre through the lens of Blackness in America? This course examines the history of Black representation in American horror films from the 1900s to the present. From D.W. Griffith's 1915 film Birth of a Nation to Ryan Coogler's 2025 Sinners, we'll explore the trajectory of the horror genre, how it has reflected America's anxieties, it's role in shaping perceptions of Blackness, and how Black horror films have evolved from representations of oppressive ideology to expressions of Black existential thought. Cross-listed with FMST 210. Additional time slot: Film screenings are on Wednesdays, 6pm to 9pm.
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06:00 PM-08:00 PM, W
ALTHSE 106
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 304 |
| Courses Offered in FREN |
| FREN 304-01 |
Francophone African and Caribbean Cultures
Instructor: Benjamin Ngong
Course Description:
This course examines cultures, literatures and films of some French-speaking countries and regions, notably the French Caribbean and Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Since dominant intellectual and cultural traditions in the US derive primarily from Europe and post-colonial North America, commonly referred to as Western traditions, this global diversity course subsequently aims to encourage students to examine societies and cultures that have been shaped predominantly by other historical traditions to think critically about dominant Western traditions, so to engage the world more effectively. Students will learn to place each work into its cultural and historical context, and develop intelligent and informed understanding of concepts such as Negritude, Colonialism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Postcolonialism, etc. Students will watch films and read a series of original texts by French-speaking authors outside France. Emphasis will be on the initiation to analysis and close reading of texts and films during class discussions and at the end of which students will write an organized reflecting essay.Prerequisite: FREN 231 or FREN 232. This course examines cultures, literatures and films of some French-speaking countries and regions, notably the French Caribbean and Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Since dominant intellectual and cultural traditions in the US derive primarily from Europe and post-colonial North America, commonly referred to as Western traditions, this global diversity course subsequently aims to encourage students to examine societies and cultures that have been shaped predominantly by other historical traditions to think critically about dominant Western traditions, so to engage the world more effectively. Students will learn to place each work into its cultural and historical context, and develop intelligent and informed understanding of concepts such as Negritude, Colonialism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Postcolonialism, etc. Students will watch films and read a series of original texts by French-speaking authors outside France. Emphasis will be on the initiation to analysis and close reading of texts and films during class discussions and at the end of which students will write an organized reflecting essay.Prerequisite: FREN 231 or FREN 232.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
BOSLER 314 |
| FREN 364-01 |
Where is home for you?
Instructor: Marina Dikosso
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01. In an increasingly globalized world shaped by mobility and displacement, the question of what constitutes home has taken on renewed urgency. This course centers women migrants' experiences, which are often overlooked despite their growing percentage of the migrant population. Focusing on Francophone African and Afro-diasporic literatures and media, the course explores how home is imagined, lost, and reconfigured across spaces and experiences. Through critical engagement with themes of displacement, identity, and belonging, this course invites reflection on how women writers articulate the complexities of migration and the ongoing search for home, revealing its multiple, fluid, and contested meanings. As such, the class will focus on how their gender, race, and nationality affect the way the women perceive home. The course includes Francophone African and Caribbean literary and media works from both the 20th and the 21st centuries, with a focus on Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Guadeloupe. Taught in French.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| Courses Offered in HIST |
| HIST 170-01 |
African Civilizations to 1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 170-01. This course provides an overview to the political, social, and ecological history of Africa. We will examine the peopling of the continent, the origins of agriculture, the growth of towns and the development of metal technology. Written sources before the 1400s are almost nonexistent for most of Africa, and so we will use archaeological and linguistic sources. The geographic focus of the course will be the Middle Nile, Aksum in Ethiopia, the Sudanic states in West Africa, Kongo in Central Africa, the Swahili states of the East African coast, and Zimbabwe and KwaZulu in Southern Africa. We will also examine the Atlantic Slave Trade and the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope.This course is cross-listed as AFST 170.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 211-02 |
The Civil Rights Movement: North and South
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 220-01. The post-World War II movement for African Americans' civil rights is often considered solely in terms of Southern-based groups and events. This class will explode the myth that the civil rights movement was confined to the South by exploring the national character of inequalities, segregation and the movement for Black freedom. With special attention to the years 1945-1975, this class will consider how segregation formed differently in Birmingham versus Alabama, how the fight for school de-segregation included battles in both Little Rock and New York, and how gender shaped protest politics and tactics of the movement across the nation. Key topics will include Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and ideas of leadership; key campaigns in Birmingham, New York, Detroit and elsewhere; important groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and how ideas about masculinity and femininity shaped the movement. An important thread throughout the class will be understanding how racial inequalities came to be "baked into" the structures and systems that shape life in the United States - from housing to education to employment. We'll learn about structural racism through the prism of Black resistance to it.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| HIST 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 272-01 and LALC 272-01. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as AFST 272 and LALC 272. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 273-01 |
African Americans Since Slavery
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 221-01. Focuses on the history of Americans of African ancestry in the years following the American Civil War, which ended in 1865. The course examines several important transformations of African Americans as a people. In the first, we consider the transition from slavery to a nominal but highly circumscribed "freedom," which ended with the destruction of Reconstruction governments in the South. We consider the institution-building and community-building processes among African Americans, and the development of distinctive elite and folk cultures among various classes of black people. We examine the Great Migration north and west between 1900 and 1920, and the urbanization of what had been a predominately rural people. Fifth, we consider the differential impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the New Deal and World War II on African Americans, and the creation of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's - 1980's. This course is cross-listed as AFST 221. Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| HIST 284-01 |
Ecological History of Africa
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 284-01. This course provides an introduction to the ecological history of Africa. We will focus in some detail on demography, the domestication of crops and animals, climate, the spread of New World crops (maize, cassava, cocoa), and disease environments from the earliest times to the present. Central to our study will be the idea that Africa's landscapes are the product of human action. Therefore, we will examine case studies of how people have interacted with their environments. African ecology has long been affected indirectly by decisions made at a global scale. Thus we will explore Africa's engagement with imperialism and colonization and the global economy in the twentieth century. The course ends with an examination of contemporary tensions between conservation and economic development.This course is cross-listed as AFST 284.
Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 311-01 |
Modern History of Policing and Incarceration in the US
Instructor: Say Burgin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 320-01. The United States of America imprisons more of its residents than almost any other country in the world. How did mass incarceration come to define this country? In this class, we will explore this question by looking at the multiple ways that the US policed and incarcerated various groups throughout the 20th century. We will pay special attention to the ways that lawmakers, police and the courts have historically targeted African Americans, but we will also study how other people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, and workers were criminalized. A major learning goal for this class will be understanding that "deviance" and "crime" were constructed categories. We will consider how the meaning of these categories shifted over time and why. Major topics will include chain gang prisoner exploitation; eugenics, the psychiatric creation of "feeble-mindedness," and asylum incarceration; the criminalization of sex work, interracial relationships, labor organizing, and political dissent; jingoism, a "new" Yellow Peril, and Japanese internment; and outlawing drug use and mass incarceration. To gain a deeper understanding of how the criminal courts actually work, students on this class will participate in a court-watching program, for which everyone will receive training.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| Courses Offered in LALC |
| LALC 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 272-01 and HIST 272-01. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as AFST 272 and HIST 272. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| Courses Offered in MUAC |
| MUAC 210-01 |
It’s a Hip Hop World: The Rise and Implications of Hip Hop beyond the US
Instructor: Nadia Alahmed
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 227-01.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
ALTHSE 204 |
| Courses Offered in POSC |
| POSC 252-01 |
African Government & Politics
Instructor: Ed Webb
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 220-02. An introduction to the politics of contemporary Africa. After reviewing the large historical, international, and socio-economic patterns of African politics, the course examines in greater depth a sampling of national political systems and salient regional or continent-wide themes. Prerequisite: one course in political science.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 103 |
| Courses Offered in WGSS |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Where is home for you?
Instructor: Marina Dikosso
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| WGSS 331-01 |
African American Women Writers
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 330-01. This course spans the African American literary tradition to examine the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's identities, voices, and roles within and outside of the Black community. Utilizing the intellectual premises of Black feminist, womanist/Africana womanist, and Black queer thoughts, we will analyze these writers' ideologies and representations of self-sovereignty, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and communalism. Moreover, we will consider their choice of genre to convey their perspectives and cultural commentaries. Pre-requisite: One AFST, US Diversity or WGSS course. Cross-listed as AFST 330.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |