Catalogue 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Africana Studies Program
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Director: Tyrone Simpson;
Steering Committee: Tagreed Al-Haddad (Africana Studies), Patricia-Pia Célérier (French and Francophone Studies), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Jonathon Kahn (Religion), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Zachariah Cherian Mampillyab (Political Science), Mia Mask (Film), Taneisha Means (Political Science), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Samson Okoth Opondoa (Political Science), Tyrone Simpson, II (English), Jasmine Syedullah (Africana Studies), Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion);
Participating Faculty: Carlos Alamo (Sociology), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Eve Dunbara (English), Luke C. Harris (Political Science), Eileen Leonardb (Sociology), Erin McCloskey (Education), Lisa Paravisini-Gebert (Hispanic Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Jasmine Syedullah (Africana Studies), Eva Woods Peiró (Hispanic Studies).
a On leave 2020/21, first semester
b On leave 2020/21, second semester
ab On leave 2020/21
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.
Major
Correlate Sequences in Africana Studies
The Africana Studies Program offers three correlate sequences.
Africana Studies: I. Introductory
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 215 - Intersections of Our Homes, Schools, and Communities
- • AFRS 219 - Queer of Color Critique
- • AFRS 220 - Policing the Planet
- • AFRS 221 - Captive Genders and Methods of Survival
- • AFRS 227 - The Harlem Renaissance and its Precursors
- • AFRS 228 - African American Literature
- • AFRS 229 - Black Intellectual History
- • AFRS 231 - Algeria/France:Race, Religion & Citizenship
- • AFRS 232 - African American Cinema
- • AFRS 234 - Race, Space and Nature
- • AFRS 240 - Cultural Localities
- • AFRS 242 - Brazil in Crisis: Continuity and Change in Portuguese America
- • AFRS 245 - Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism
- • AFRS 247 - The Politics of Difference
- • AFRS 248 - Racial and Ethnic Group Politics in Popular Culture
- • AFRS 250 - Across Religious Boundaries: Understanding Differences
- • AFRS 251 - Topics in Black Literatures
- • AFRS 255 - Race, Representation, and Resistance in U.S. Schools
- • AFRS 256 - Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
- • AFRS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
- • AFRS 259 - Settler Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective
- • AFRS 260 - International Relations of the Third World: Bandung to 9/11
- • AFRS 266 - Art, Urgency, and Everyday Life in the United States
- • AFRS 269 - Gender and African American History
- • AFRS 271 - Theorizing Global Blackness and Indigeneity
- • AFRS 272 - Modern African History
- • AFRS 276 - How to Write a Black Memoir
- • AFRS 277 - Global Literatures in English
- • AFRS 279 - Spaces of Exception
- • AFRS 285 - Art, Spirituality and Power in Precolonial African History
- • AFRS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
- • AFRS 298 - Independent Work
- • AFRS 299 - Research Methods
Africana Studies: III. Advanced
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