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AFRICAAM 12: Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith, and Gender in the 2008 Election (CSRE 12)

From the 2008 nomination process to the election between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.The complexities of identity and its role in uniting and dividing the electorate. Panels covering the media, political participation, and group affiliation.
Terms: Aut | Units: 1-3

AFRICAAM 40: The Muse, Musings, and Music

Internal and external sources of inspiration and the practice of applying them through creative expression. Creativity as an act of manifestation in daily life. Writing exercises, improvisation games. Students perform their poetry, music, and visual art. Final class project.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Moses, R. (PI)

AFRICAAM 75B: Black Sitcoms

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

AFRICAAM 101: African American Lecture Series: Race and Faith

Weekly lectures on African or African American artistic expression, culture, history, language, literature, music, politics, religion and society. One unit for attendance at lecture reading and submission of brief response papers. Additional units require participation in discussion sections, readings, and the opportunity to conduct and record interviews with speakers in the lecture series for the AAAS archives. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Elam, M. (PI)

AFRICAAM 105: Introduction to African and African American Studies (ENGLISH 143E, HISTORY 255B)

Interdisciplinary. Central themes in African American culture and history related to race as a definitive American phenomenon. African survivals and interpretations of slavery in the New World, contrasting interpretations of the Black family, African American literature, and art. Possible readings: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and bell hooks. Focus may vary each year.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP

AFRICAAM 144: African Women Writers

The intricacy and diversity of contemporary African women's writings. Focusis on fiction from various regions of Africa. Authors include Dangarembga, Ba, Okunit, Vera, Head, Aidoo, and El Saadawi. Theoretical readings locate the writings within historical, philosophical, and aesthetic traditions.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Powell, P. (PI)

AFRICAAM 145: Writing Race, Writing Faith: The Poetics and Politics of Spirituality in Black Literature

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.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Powell, P. (PI)

AFRICAAM 146: New Possibilities for Writing and Art

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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Powell, P. (PI)

AFRICAAM 152: W.E.B. DuBois as Writer and Philosopher (ENGLISH 152D, PHIL 194L)

Capstone seminar for Philosophy and Literature programs. Preference to majors in English, Philosophy, African and African American Studies, or the Philosophy and Literature programs. Life, career, thought, and writings of DuBois. Focus on the first half of his career, interactions among his early philosophical perfectionism, his work in social theory/social science, and his literary ambitions as an essayist and novelist. Sources include Souls of Black Folk, as well as his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, and novels.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul

AFRICAAM 153: Race and Ethnicity in Stand-Up Comedy (CSRE 153, DRAMA 153)

American stand-up comedy since WW II America by African, Asian, Jewish, and Latina/o Americans. How performers negotiated questions of individual and group identity through the paradigms of race and ethnicity.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Daube, M. (PI)
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