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AFRICAAM 40SI: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology): The Color of Ecoliteracy

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.
Terms: Win | Units: 1-2 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 4 units total)
Instructors: Brown, C. (PI)

AFRICAAM 54N: African American Women's Lives (HISTORY 54N)

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Hobbs, A. (PI)

AFRICAAM 60: Nation, Diaspora, and the Gods of African American Religion (RELIGST 60)

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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum | Repeatable 1 times (up to 4 units total)
Instructors: Hughes, B. (PI)

AFRICAAM 64: From Freedom to Freedom Now!: African American History, 1865-1965 (HISTORY 64C)

(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.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul

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 105R: Race, Faith, and Migration

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.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: Hughes, B. (PI)

AFRICAAM 121X: Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (CSRE 121X, EDUC 121X, LINGUIST 155)

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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-4
Instructors: Alim, H. (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 145A: Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature (CSRE 145A)

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.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors: Duffey, C. (PI)

AFRICAAM 152: DuBois and American Culture (ENGLISH 152D)

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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors: Elam, M. (PI)
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