Director: Zachariah Cherian Mampilly

Steering Committee: Carlos Alamo-Pastrana (Sociology), Colette Cann^ab (Education), Patricia-Pia Célérier (French and Francophone Studies), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Eve Dunbar (English), Diane Harriford^b (Sociology), Luke C. Harris (Political Science), Kiese Laymon (English), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Zachariah Cherian Mampilly (Political Science), Mia Mask^a (Film), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Quincy T. Mills (History), Hiram Perez^a (English), Tyrone Simpson, II (English)

Participating Faculty: Tagreed Al-Haddad (Africana Studies)

^a On leave 2014/15, first semester
^b On leave 2014/15, second semester
^ab On leave 2014/15

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

Courses

Africana Studies: I. Introductory

• •  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 122 - Tradition, Religion, Modernity: A History of North Africa and the Middle East
• •  AFRS 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience
• •  AFRS 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa
• •  AFRS 185 - The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States

Africana Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  AFRS 202 - Black Music
• •  AFRS 203 - Arab Women Writers: A Literature of their Own?
• •  AFRS 204 - Islam in America
• •  AFRS 205 - Arab American Literature
• •  AFRS 206 - Social Change in the Black and Latino Communities
• •  AFRS 207 - Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 208 - Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 209 - From Homer to Omeros
• •  AFRS 211 - Religions of the Oppressed and Third-World Liberation Movements
• •  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: “Vicious Modernism” and Beyond
• •  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 242 - Brazil, Society, Culture, and Environment in Portuguese America
• •  AFRS 246 - French Speaking Cultures and Literatures of Africa and the Caribbean
• •  AFRS 247 - The Politics of Difference
• •  AFRS 249 - Latino/a Formations
• •  AFRS 251 - Topics in Black Literatures
• •  AFRS 252 - Writing the Diaspora: Verses/Versus
• •  AFRS 254 - The Arts of Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Africa
• •  AFRS 255 - Race, Representation, and Resistance in U.S. Schools
• •  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 - African American History to 1865
• •  AFRS 266 - Art and Everyday Life in the United States
• •  AFRS 267 - African American History, 1865-Present
• •  AFRS 268 - Sociology of Black Religion
• •  AFRS 270 - The Black Power Movement
• •  AFRS 271 - Perspectives on the African Past: Africa Before 1800
• •  AFRS 272 - Modern African History
• •  AFRS 273 - Development Economics
• •  AFRS 275 - Caribbean Discourse
• •  AFRS 277 - Sea-Changes: Caribbean Rewritings of the British Canon
• •  AFRS 280 - Spaces of Exception: Migration, Asylum-Seeking, and Statelessness Today
• •  AFRS 282 - The Carceral State and Black (Queer and Trans) Bodies
• •  AFRS 288 - The Politics of Language in Schools and Society
• •  AFRS 290 - Field Work
• •  AFRS 298 - Independent Work
• •  AFRS 299 - Research Methods
• •  AFRS 386 - Situating Blackness, Situating Vassar: Experience, Documentation, Transformation

Africana Studies: III. Advanced

• •  AFRS 300 - Senior Thesis or Project
• •  AFRS 301 - Seminar in Classical Civilization: Athenian Drama on the African Stage
• •  AFRS 307 - Upper-Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 308 - Upper-Intermediate Arabic
• •  AFRS 310 - Politics and Religion: Tradition and Modernization in the Third World
• •  AFRS 311 - Advanced Arabic
• •  AFRS 319 - Race and Its Metaphors
• •  AFRS 326 - Challenging Ethnicity
• •  AFRS 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• •  AFRS 352 - Redemption and Diplomatic Imagination in Postcolonial Africa
• •  AFRS 353 - Pedagogies of Difference: Critical Approaches to Education
• •  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 383 - Transnational Solidarities:Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determinatione/Black Struggle for Liberation
• •  AFRS 385 - Seminar in American Art
• •  AFRS 399 - Senior Independent Work