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Historical Perspectives
333. Perspectives in
Afro-American History. (3). (Excl).
Section 101 – Affirmative Action, Historically Considered.
Our goal in this course is to examine, in historical perspective, the current national debate on affirmative action. The course
includes four main parts. First, we advance the proposition that
today's affirmative action debate is the most recent phase of
a centuries long debate over power, position, and access in American
society. Next, we trace the concept historically beginning with
its roots in post-Civil War Reconstruction. We continue by charting the legal contours of affirmative action from its New Deal precursors
to its emergence as federal policy in the 1960s, and identify the components of the broader debate regarding it. We conclude the course by assaying the limitation of affirmative action as
metaphor for race in America today, and by considering the implications
of this debate for our understanding of power, marginality, and community in American life and culture. WL:1
(Woods)
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336/WS 336. Black Women in America. (3). (SS).
This class will explore the history of African American women
in the twentieth century. Covering the period of 1890 to the present, we will look at the social, economic, political, and community
lives of African American women. Through examining the variety
of Black women's experiences, we will investigate the intersection
of race and gender in American life to show the particularities
of Black women's experiences and to challenge the masculinizing
of the Black experience and the whitening of the female experience
in U.S. history and historiography. Cost:2
WL:1 (Theoharis)
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Politics, Economics, and Development
203. Issues in Afro-American
Development. (3). (SS).
Section 101 – History of Blacks and Cities. This course is
an interdisciplinary exploration of Blacks in cities from the
1920s to the present. Using a range of `texts' – music, poems, novels, films, photographs, autobiographies, paintings, and architecture
- we will investigate representations of Blacks in cities from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary `ghettos'. We will also
map the migrations of African Americans from the rural south to
southern, northern, midwestern, and western urban centers, paying
close attention to demographic and economic shifts. This course
will be conducted in a lecture/discussion format. Full class participation
is expected. Students will be required to write short (1-3) page
synopses of the materials we discuss each week. As a final project, students will offer their own analyses or representations of Black
urban life – past, present, futuristic, utopian, or dystopian.
There will be one main book and a course pack. The course also
includes weekly film screenings. Cost:1
WL:1 (McQuirter)
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Individual Behavior, Cultural Systems, and Social Organization
303/Soc. 303. Race and Ethnic Relations. An introductory course in sociology or CAAS. (3). (SS). (R&E).
See Sociology 303. (Kim)
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327/Psych. 315. Psychological
Aspects of the Black Experience. One course in psychology
or Afroamerican and African Studies. (3). (SS).
Section 101 – African American Women. This course provides
an historical exploration of the changing representations of womanhood
over the past 200 years. Particular emphasis is placed on examining the ways in which those shifting ideas about Black womanhood have
manifested in the media, in popular culture as well as within the private lives of many women. The impact of historical forces
on women's relationships, their notions of motherhood, and their
experiences of political activism, safety, sexuality, and spirituality/religiosity
are explored. Course requirements: Weekly journal, midterm and final paper, final presentation. No exams. Cost:1
WL:1 (Mattis)
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Independent Study and Special Topics
410. Supervised Reading and Research. Permission of instructor. (1-6). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit with permission of the concentration advisor.
For students who can show appropriate preparation in courses
previously taken, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
offers course credit for independent study. A full-time faculty
member must agree to supervise the undertaking and to meet with the student during the term. The proposed course of study may
not duplicate the material of any course regularly offered by the Center. The reading and writing requirement should be comparable
to that required in a regular course for the same number of credits;
and all the work must be completed by the final day of class in the term. After consultation with and approval from a CAAS faculty
member, applications for independent study along with statements
describing the schedule of readings and of writing assignments
must be filled out. Such applications must be signed by the faculty
member involved and turned in before the end of the second week
of the term. It is therefore advisable to submit applications
(available in 200 West Hall) in advance of the beginning of the
independent study term and, upon approval, an electronic override
will be issued.
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458. Issues in Black
World Studies. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a
total of six credits.
Section 101 – Countryside and City in African Society. This
course attempts to illuminate the dynamics of politics in sub-Saharan
Africa through a critical analysis of the nature and the changing
patterns of the relationship between city-based elites and peasant
producers. In the immediate post-independence years, African leaders
strove to consolidate their power and to extend the authority
of the state over populations scattered in the countryside. Much
of the literature on African politics, therefore, tended to focus
on ruling classes and the formal institutions of the state. One
of the main objectives of this course is to seek to broaden the
analytical focus of post-colonial politics to include peasant
producers as relevant historical actors involved in complex relationships
with city-based ruling coalitions. Texts include: Jonathan Baker, Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa; Goran Hyden, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania. Cost:2
WL:4 (Twumasi)
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510. Supervised Research. Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (1-6). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit with permission of the concentration advisor.
Arrangements may be made for adequately prepared students to
undertake individual study under the direction of a departmental
staff member. Students are provided with the proper section number
by the staff member with whom the work has been arranged.
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Literature and the Arts
204. Cultural History
of Afro-America. (3). (Excl).
Section 201 – Islam in America, II: African American Muslim Communities.
For Summer Half-Term, 1998, this section is offered jointly with
Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic
Studies 291.201. (O'Connor)
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303/Soc. 303. Race and Ethnic Relations. An introductory course in sociology
or CAAS. (3). (SS). (R&E).
See Sociology 303. (Forman)
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Independent Study and Special Topics
410. Supervised Reading
and Research. Permission of instructor. (1-6). (Excl).
(INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit with permission of the
concentration advisor.
For students who can show appropriate preparation in courses previously
taken, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies offers
course credit for independent study. A full-time faculty member
must agree to supervise the undertaking and to meet with the student
during the term. The proposed course of study may not duplicate the material of any course regularly offered by the Center. The
reading and writing requirement should be comparable to that required
in a regular course for the same number of credits; and all the
work must be completed by the final day of class in the term.
After consultation with and approval from a CAAS faculty member, applications for independent study along with statements describing the schedule of readings and of writing assignments must be filled
out. Such applications must be signed by the faculty member involved
and turned in before the end of the second week of the term. It
is therefore advisable to submit applications (available in 200
West Hall) in advance of the beginning of the independent study
term and, upon approval, an electronic override will be issued.
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510. Supervised Research.
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (1-6).
(Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit with permission
of the concentration advisor.
Arrangements may be made for adequately prepared students to undertake
individual study under the direction of a departmental staff member.
Students are provided with the proper section number by the staff
member with whom the work has been arranged.
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