Fall 2019 Class Schedule
Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time | Curricular Category |
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101-6-20 | First-Year Seminar: Education For Black Liberation | kihana ross | MW 9:30a-10:50a | Elective |
101-6-20 First-Year Seminar: Education For Black LiberationThis class considers what it means to conceptualize, articulate, and actualize a liberatory Black educational project within U.S. public schools structured by anti-Black solidarity. In the first section of the course, we explore the fight to desegregate public schools and the ways the historic Brown v. Board of Education case transformed schooling for Black children and their communities. In considering the impact of the Brown decision on the experiences of Black students in U.S. public schools, we interrogate the rebukes of Brown including the various educational projects (community control, Panther freedom schools, the Black independent school movement etc.) advanced in Brown's aftermath. In the second section of the course, we explore the myriad ways Black students experience antiblackness and anti-Black racism in U.S. public schools contemporarily, as well as the ways Black students, educators, administrators, community and family members, and scholars have articulated what the notion of liberation may mean in the face of antiblackness. In the final section of the course, we consider the tensions and possibilities in the desire to "get free" within the confines of U.S. public schools. | ||||
kihana rossBio coming soon | ||||
210-0-20 | Survey of African American Literature | Tracy Vaughn-Manley | TTh 11a-12:20p | Core |
210-0-20 Survey of African American LiteratureLiterature of blacks from slavery to freedom. Works of major writers and significant but unsung bards of the past. | ||||
Tracy Vaughn-ManleyBio coming soon | ||||
212-1-20 | Intro to African American History 1 | Sherwin Bryant | TTh 12:30p-1:50p | Core |
212-1-20 Intro to African American History 11. Key concepts in African American history from 1700 to 1861. Includes African origins; the Atlantic slave trade; origins of slaving and racism in the United States; life under slavery in the North and South; and religion, family, culture, and resistance. 2. Key concepts in African American history from emancipation to the beginnings of the civil rights era. Focus on constructions of class, gender, and community; the rise of Jim Crow; strategies of protest; and migration and urbanization. Taught with HISTORY 212; students may not earn credit for both courses. | ||||
Sherwin BryantBio coming soon | ||||
236-0-20 | Intro to African American Studies | kihana ross | MW 12:30p-1:50p | Core |
236-0-20 Intro to African American StudiesKey texts and concepts in African American studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. | ||||
kihana rossBio coming soon | ||||
363-0-20 | Racism in Western Modernity | Barnor Hesse | MW 11a-12:20p | Elective |
363-0-20 Racism in Western ModernityImpact of racism in the formation of Western modernity. Critical conceptual and historical analyses of the social formation of "race" and the historical implications of racism in the contemporary West. | ||||
Barnor HesseBio coming soon | ||||
380-0-20 | Topics: Gender and Sexuality in African American Women's Lives: The Nineteenth Century | Leslie Harris | TTh 2p-3:20p | Elective |
380-0-20 Topics: Gender and Sexuality in African American Women's Lives: The Nineteenth CenturyThis course will examine the lives of African American women between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Topics to be addressed include labor; family and community relationships; sexuality and intimacy; and political activism: free black women in the anti-slavery movement and enslaved women's resistance to enslavement. Students must participate in a Discussion Section on Fridays at either 1 p.m., 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. | ||||
Leslie HarrisBio coming soon | ||||
380-0-21 | Topics: Feeling Black/Black Feeling | Lauren Jackson | TTh 2p-3:20p | Elective |
380-0-21 Topics: Feeling Black/Black FeelingThis course introduces and investigates the matter of black feeling. Does blackness have a feeling? What emotional baggage accompanies racial difference? How do emotions inform, distort, and even precede our notions of race and culture? And how do all types of feelings, personal and public, shape or interrogate the project of racial representation? Drawing together seminal and lesser-known works in African American literature with secondary texts from affect theory, black studies, postcolonial theory, and Afro-pessimism, we will explore the messy entwinement of blackness and emotion and identify how this entwinement is variously represented across the African American literary tradition. | ||||
Lauren JacksonBio coming soon | ||||
380-0-22 | Topics: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames of War | Steven Thrasher | MW 10a-11:20a | Elective |
380-0-22 Topics: Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames of WarThis course will be an intensive study in understanding the relationship between American journalism and the U.S. military in creating an American empire. By focusing on how the U.S. military has segregated service members by race, sexuality, gender, and gender identity—and on how U.S. media has covered the military—students will study how identity roles have been formed by both the military and the media in American society. Readings will include primary sources, works of journalism, and scholarship. Topics covered will include the histories of LGBTQ rights; "pinkwashing" and "homonationalism"; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; racial segregation; the development of the condom; government management of HIV/AIDS; subjectivity and objectivity; and, essentialism. The course is intended for journalism majors and non-majors alike, and will be centered on helping both analyze news media critically in order to better understand how race, gender, sexuality and American identity are constructed. | ||||
Steven ThrasherBio coming soon | ||||
380-0-23 | Topics: African American Religions | Larry Perry | MW 2p-3:20p | Elective |
380-0-23 Topics: African American ReligionsA study of Black religions, from the time of slavery to the present, in the context of American social, political, and religious history. The course pushes students to take a panoramic view of Black Religions in America. Consideration will be given to debates concerning the roots of Black American Religion, the Black Social Gospel, the Centrality (or lack there of) of Black Churches, Black Islam, Blacl Catholiciam, African Indigenous Religions, Black Atheism, the Religiousity of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Theology, Womanist Theology, Black Televangelism, and the present battle for Black Rights. *Counts towards Religion, Law, and Politics (RLP) religion studies major concentration. | ||||
Larry PerryBio coming soon | ||||
402-0-20 | Theorizing Black Genders and Sexualities | Celeste Watkins-Hayes | W 2p-4:50p | Core |
402-0-20 Theorizing Black Genders and SexualitiesThis course examines the multiple, changing meanings and political effects of gender and sexuality on black identity in different socio-cultural contexts. Drawing on the work of black LGBTQ and feminist thinkers, it analyzes how social institutions such as the law, family and economy, and cultural representations, e.g. literary and popular media, shape competing concepts of black genders and sexualities. This course also stages a series of dialogues between global black feminist theory and black queer theory through the discussion of such topics as: the legacies of slavery and colonialism; diaspora; citizenship; activism; labor, kinship; body politics, , reproduction, violence, HIV/AIDs, as well as appropriations and alliances. The following texts offer a representative, rather than exhaustive, sample from which readings may be drawn: E. Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson, eds. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology; Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics; Thomas Glave, ed. Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles; Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, "Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic;" Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class; Oguntoye, et al, Showing Our Colors Afro-German Women Speak Out; M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought; Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture; Gloria Wekker, The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora; Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness; C. Riley Snorton, Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low; Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas, eds. Queer African Reader. | ||||
Celeste Watkins-HayesBio coming soon | ||||
475-0-20 | Genealogy of Racism as a Concept: Deconstruction & Governmentality | Barnor Hesse | M 2p-4:50p | Elective |
475-0-20 Genealogy of Racism as a Concept: Deconstruction & GovernmentalityThe aim of this course is to interrogate the histories and logics of race and racism as concepts. In considering the significance of race and racism as a concepts, it critiques the discursive traditions in which they been traditionally narrated as historically self-evident objects. The course turns attention to the contested social construction of race within the concept of racism, revealing the suppression of the colonial formation of race as a political object of contestation, which in turn facilitates the privileging of race as a natural object of scientific investigation. In exposing race as constituted by a colonial and governmental lineage rather than a biological or ethnic ancestry, the course shifts the conceptual meaning of racism from its contemporary anchorage in ideology and the exception in western sovereignty, to the constitutive logics of convention and regime in contemporary western liberal democracies. Seeking to establish a reformulated concept of race and racism in the material and discursive terms of governance and histories of practices rather than ideology and histories of ideas, the course draws upon Foucauldian method of genealogy. | ||||
Barnor HesseBio coming soon | ||||
480-0-20 | Topics: Afro-Latin America | Sherwin Bryant | T 2p-4:50p | Elective |
480-0-20 Topics: Afro-Latin AmericaThis course will interrogate Afro-Latin America from its early modern constitution through the present, broadly through the mode of historiography. The question, history, people and region that make up Afro-Latin America and Afro-Latinidad sit now, as they have across history, at the very tip of the spear of racial policing, state violence and carcerality. The territorial claims they mark/ed off remain at intersections of mineral wealth, sovereignty, and the limits of governance, excess. Broadly, we will examine the field and experiences of Afro-Latin Americans as entangled within African Diaspra History, which is to say Black history. In this sense, we will begin our course with a consideration of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past, and ask that all have read it by the first day. Final papers may address a range of related topics, places, and methodologies, including, but not limited to slavery, casta, race, Blackness, sexuality, spirituality, African historiography and global archaeology. | ||||
Sherwin BryantBio coming soon |