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Class Detail:
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FA 2012
Afroamerican & African Studies
AAS
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First Year Humanities Seminar
Section
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Migrations in 20th Century Black Literature and Culture
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Course Note:
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This seminar introduces first-year students to the intellectual community of humanities scholars working in the field of Afroamerican and African studies. The topic of the seminar varies from year to year.
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Credits:
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3
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Requirements & Distribution:
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HU
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Other:
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FYSem
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Waitlist Capacity:
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99
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Consent:
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With permission of instructor.
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Other Course Info:
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(Cross-Area Courses). May not be included in a concentration plan.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Santamarina,Xiomara A
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(real time availability for all sections)
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This course engages with literature, film and music that feature Black characters migrating between regions, countries and islands. We will study the many media; short stories, blues songs, films, plays and novels; through which African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans represented their movement in time and space from slavery to freedom, from South to North, and from island to mainland, through the 20th century down to the present. Black populations’ encounters with growing cities and new visual technologies, like films and photography, offered migrants numerous cultural experiences and venues for representing the conflicts, opportunities and challenges that accompanied the uprooting of families and traditions. Writers include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Gloria Naylor and Paule Marshall, among others. Course Requirements: Assignments include short responses, in-class presentations, a midterm and final day of class exam. Be prepared to do in-class writing assignments without advance notice. Intended Audience: No data submitted Class Format: No data submitted
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 0451527550
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The sport of the gods, Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar ; with an introduction by William L. Andrews., Publisher: Signet Classic 1999
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Required
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ISBN: 9781555530235
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Home to Harlem, Author: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Publisher: Northeastern University Press 1987
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Required
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ISBN: 9780684815800
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The blacker the berry--, Author: Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934., Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1996
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Required
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ISBN: 9780679732761
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Invisible man, Author: Ellison, Ralph., Publisher: Vintage International 1995
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Required
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ISBN: 9780140066906
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The women of Brewster Place, Author: Naylor, Gloria., Publisher: Penguin Books 1983
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Required
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ISBN: 1594489580
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, Author: Di?az, Junot, 1968-, Publisher: Riverhead Books 2007
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Required
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