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As Stanford students, we're bombarded with buzzwords like green, sustainability, and environmental justice, and it's easy to take these concepts for granted. Ecoliteracy is the necessary foundation for positive interaction with the earth and its resources. In order to support and respect the environment, young people need to see the value of sustaining their surroundings, and be empowered to foster a relationship between themselves and the natural world. In certain areas, there is a disconnect between ideas of environment and neighborhood and the scarcity of environmental education and experiences widens the climate gap and achievement gap, especially between privileged groups and low-income communities of color.nMaybe repeat for credit.

Preference to freshmen. The everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America in comparative context of histories of European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Primary sources including personal journals, memoirs, music, literature, and film, and historical texts. Topics include slavery and emancipation, labor and leisure, consumer culture, social activism, changing gender roles, and the politics of sexuality.

The histories of religion and faith cultures among communities of the African diaspora. The religious traditions and historical experiences of black communities across the 19th- and 20th-century U.S. and a comparative view of South American, Caribbean and African histories. Close readings of music, film, literature and visual arts and the overlapping religious affiliations of nation and diaspora.

(Same as HISTORY 164C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 164C.) Explores the working lives, social worlds, political ideologies and cultural expressions of African Americans from emancipation to the early civil rights era. Topics include: the transition from slavery to freedom, family life, work, culture, leisure patterns, resistance, migration and social activism. Sources include memoirs, letters, personal journals, pamphlets, speeches, literature, film and music.

The portrayal of black life on television in the 70s. Critical framework including concepts of identity, race, gender, and class. In-class viewings. Sitcoms in relation to theoretical work including that of Toni Morrison, Marlon Riggs, Hermann Gray, Ann duCille, and Mark Anthony Neal.

A weekly lecture series - drawing upon experts in various disciplines, departments, and centers on campus and beyond - which seeks to understand and explain Race, Faith, and Migration.

Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.

How spirituality functions thematically and aesthetically in black literature; how different spiritual practices are articulated in black diasporic communities. Theoretical readings locate the writings within the historical, philosophical and aesthetic traditions of the literature. Authors include DuBois, Marshall, Walker, Phillips, Brodber, and Johnson.

Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization.

His life and career. Focus on first half of his life from his Harvard doctoral dissertation to the end of the Harlem Renaissance in which he played a crucial role. Sources include his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, novels, and journals that he edited. AAAS WIM course.

Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.

May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Required for seniors. Weekly colloquia with AAAS Director and Associate Director to assist with refinement of research topic, advisor support, literature review, research, and thesis writing. Readings include foundational and cutting-edge scholarship in the interdisciplinary fields of African and African American studies and comparative race studies. Readings assist students situate their individual research interests and project within the larger. Students may also enroll in AFRICAAM 200Y in Winter and AFRICAAM 200Z in Spring for additional research units (up to 10 units total).

Winter. Required for students writing an Honors Thesis. Optional for Students writing a Senior Thesis.

Spring. Required for students writing an Honors Thesis. Optional for Students writing a Senior Thesis.

Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music.

Race and environment explored from a starting point of movement and physical expression to access instinctive knowledge of deeply rooted personal and collective subconsciousness. Students generate material while working in indoor and outdoor sites as metaphor for internal and external landscapes. Historical and contemporary reflections of the peoples of the First Nations serve as a map to generate dialog and exploration of students' individual impressions of race and environment.

Foundational African and African American scholarly figures and their work from the 19th century to the present. Historical, political, and scholarly context. Dialogues distinctive to African American culture. May be repeated for credit.

Writing workshop to explore conventional as well as innovative approaches to writing, including digital, sound and movement. How different forms of music can inspire poetry. How still art, live performance, interviews or film shape the way one can think about and compose stories. What those stories and poems look and feel like when put to movement. CWriting experiments, museum visits, and performance of students' works. Guest poets, fiction writers, and artists who blur these boundaries. Students submit written pieces each week to be discussed.