Director: Quincy T. Mills;

Steering Committee: Tagreed Al-Haddad (Africana Studies), Colette Cann (Education), Patricia-Pia Célérier (French and Francophone Studies), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Zachariah Cherian Mampilly (Political Science), Mia Mask^b (Film), Annie Menzel (Political Science), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Quincy T. Mills (History), Samson Okoth Opondo^a (Political Science), Tyrone Simpson, II^a (English);

Participating Faculty: Carlos Alamo (Sociology), Lisa Gail Collins (Art)^a, Eve Dunbar (English), Luke C. Harris^a (Political Science), Kiese Laymon^a (English), Eileen Leonard^b (Sociology), Erin McCloskey (Education), Lisa Paravisini-Gebert (Hispanic Studies), Hiram Perez^b (English), Eva Woods (Hispanic Studies).

^a On leave 2017/18, first semester

^b On leave 2017/18, second semester

Founded in 1969 out of student protest and political upheaval, the Africana Studies Program continues its commitment to social change and the examination and creation of new knowledge. The Africana Studies Program brings together scholars and scholarship from many fields of study and draws on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to explore the cultures, histories, institutions, and societies of African and African-descended people. Program strengths include: education and activism; literature; feminism; political thought; Arabic language and culture; critical race theory; queer studies; prison studies; visual culture; creative writing; social, cultural, and political movements; and popular culture.

Advisers: Program director and program faculty.

Programs

Major

• •  Africana Studies Major

Correlate Sequences in Africana Studies

• •  Africana Studies Correlate Sequence
• •  Arabic Language and Culture Correlate Sequence
• •  Prison Studies Correlate Sequence

Courses

Africana Studies: I. Introductory

• •  AFRS 100 - Introduction to Africana Studies
• •  AFRS 101 - Martin Luther King Jr.
• •  AFRS 104 - Religion, Prisons, and the Civil Rights Movement
• •  AFRS 105 - Issues In Africana Studies
• •  AFRS 106 - Elementary Arabic
• •  AFRS 107 - Elementary Arabic
• •  AFRS 109 - Beyond the Veil and Islamic Terrorism: Modern Arabic Literature
• •  AFRS 112 - An Introduction to Islam
• •  AFRS 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience
• •  AFRS 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa
• •  AFRS 185 - Incarcerating Philosophies

Africana Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  AFRS 202 - Black Music
• •  AFRS 205 - Arab Women Writers
• •  AFRS 207 - Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 208 - Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
• •  AFRS 212 - Arabic Literature and Culture
• •  AFRS 217 - Prisons, Community Reentry, and Critical issues in the Criminal Justice System
• •  AFRS 227 - The Harlem Renaissance and its Precursors
• •  AFRS 228 - African American Literature
• •  AFRS 229 - Black Intellectual History
• •  AFRS 232 - African American Cinema
• •  AFRS 234 - Creole Religions of the Caribbean
• •  AFRS 235 - The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
• •  AFRS 236 - Imprisonment and the Prisoner
• •  AFRS 240 - Cultural Localities
• •  AFRS 242 - Brazil in Crisis: Continuity and Change in Portuguese America
• •  AFRS 244 - Indian Ocean
• •  AFRS 245 - Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism
• •  AFRS 246 - French Speaking Cultures and Literatures of Africa and the Caribbean
• •  AFRS 247 - The Politics of Difference
• •  AFRS 248 - Racial and Ethnic Group Politics in Popular Culture
• •  AFRS 249 - Latino/a Formations
• •  AFRS 251 - Topics in Black Literatures
• •  AFRS 252 - Writing the Diaspora: Verses/Versus
• •  AFRS 253 - Topics in American Literature
• •  AFRS 254 - The Arts of Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Africa
• •  AFRS 256 - Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
• •  AFRS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
• •  AFRS 258 - Environment and Culture in the Caribbean
• •  AFRS 259 - Settler Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective
• •  AFRS 260 - International Relations of the Third World: Bandung to 9/11
• •  AFRS 264 - African American Women’s History
• •  AFRS 265 - Slavery and Freedom in the U.S.
• •  AFRS 266 - Art, Urgency, and Everyday Life in the United States
• •  AFRS 267 - African American History, 1865-Present
• •  AFRS 270 - The Black Power Movement
• •  AFRS 271 - Perspectives on the African Past: Africa Before 1800
• •  AFRS 272 - Modern African History
• •  AFRS 275 - Caribbean Discourse
• •  AFRS 277 - Crossings: Literature without Borders
• •  AFRS 283 - Gender, Sexuality and Abolitionist Activism
• •  AFRS 290 - Field Work
• •  AFRS 298 - Independent Work
• •  AFRS 299 - Research Methods

Africana Studies: III. Advanced

• •  AFRS 300 - Senior Thesis or Project
• •  AFRS 307 - Upper-Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 308 - Upper-Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 311 - Advanced Arabic
• •  AFRS 319 - Race and its Metaphors
• •  AFRS 326 - Challenging Ethnicity
• •  AFRS 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• •  AFRS 346 - Race and Gender in Judicial Politics
• •  AFRS 351 - Africana Studies Seminar
• •  AFRS 352 - Redemption and Diplomatic Imagination in Postcolonial Africa
• •  AFRS 360 - Black Business and Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
• •  AFRS 362 - Text and Image
• •  AFRS 365 - Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
• •  AFRS 366 - Art and Activism in the United States
• •  AFRS 370 - Transnational Literature
• •  AFRS 373 - Slavery and Abolition in Africa
• •  AFRS 374 - The African Diaspora
• •  AFRS 378 - Black Paris
• •  AFRS 382 - Race and Popular Culture
• •  AFRS 384 - Prophetic Praxis of Liberation
• •  AFRS 399 - Senior Independent Work