Catalogue 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Africana Studies Program
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Director: 2015/16 Zachariah Cherian Mampilly,
2016/17 Quincy T. Mills;
Steering Committee: Carlos Alamo (Sociology), Colette Cann (Education), Patricia-Pia Célérier (French and Francophone Studies), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Eve Dunbar (English), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Luke C. Harris (Political Science), Kiese Laymon (English), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Zachariah Cherian Mampillya (Political Science), Mia Mask (Film), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Quincy T. Mills (History), Samson Okoth Opondo (Political Science), Hiram Perez (English), Tyrone Simpson, II (English);
Participating Faculty: Tagreed Al-Haddad (Africana Studies).
a On leave 2016/17, 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.
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 204 - Islam in America
- • AFRS 205 - Arab Women Writers
- • AFRS 207 - Intermediate Arabic
- • AFRS 208 - Intermediate Arabic
- • AFRS 209 - From Homer to Omeros
- • 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 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 249 - Latino/a Formations
- • AFRS 250 - Language, Culture, and Society
- • 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 283 - Gender, Sexuality and Abolitionist Activism
- • AFRS 289 - Youth, Crisis, and Resistance
- • AFRS 290 - Field Work
- • AFRS 298 - Independent Work
- • AFRS 299 - Research Methods
Africana Studies: III. Advanced
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