Catalogue 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Africana Studies Program
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Director: Diane Harriford;
Steering Committee: Tagreed Al-Haddad (Africana Studies), Patricia-Pia Célérier (French and Francophone Studies), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Tamyka Jordon-Conlin (Music), Jonathon Kahn (Religion), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Mia Maskb (Film), Krystle McLaughlin (Chemistry), Taneisha Meansa (Political Science), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Osman Nemli (Philosophy), Samson Okoth Opondo (Political Science), Allison Puglisi (History), Michael Reyes Salas (Africana Studies), Louis Römer (Anthropology), Tyrone Simpson, II (English), Jasmine Syedullah (Africana Studies), Catherine Tan (Sociology), Shona Tuckerab (Drama), Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion), Kimberly Williams Brownb (Education);
Participating Faculty: Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Eve Dunbar (English), Luke C. Harris (Political Science), Erin McCloskey (Education), Lizabeth Paravisini-Geberta (Hispanic Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Eva Woods Peiróa (Hispanic Studies).
a On leave 2023/24, first semester
b On leave 2023/24, second semester
ab On leave 2023/24
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 205 - Arab Women Writers
- • AFRS 207 - Intermediate Arabic
- • AFRS 208 - Intermediate Arabic
- • AFRS 209 - Homer and the Caribbean
- • AFRS 210 - Afrofuturism
- • AFRS 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
- • AFRS 212 - Arabic Literature and Culture
- • AFRS 215 - Intersections of Our Homes, Schools, and Communities
- • AFRS 219 - Queer of Color Critique
- • AFRS 220 - Policing the Planet
- • AFRS 221 - Captive Genders and Methods of Survival
- • AFRS 223 - Surrealism Across the African Diaspora
- • AFRS 225 - Prison Literature and Political Dissidence in the MENA Region
- • AFRS 227 - The Harlem Renaissance and its Precursors
- • AFRS 228 - African American Literature
- • AFRS 229 - Black Intellectual History
- • AFRS 231 - Algeria/France:Race, Religion & Citizenship
- • AFRS 232 - African American Cinema
- • AFRS 233 - Carceral Literature of the Caribbean
- • AFRS 234 - Race, Space and Nature
- • AFRS 236 - The Black Freedom Struggle
- • AFRS 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Black America
- • AFRS 239 - Topics in Global Performance
- • AFRS 240 - Cultural Localities
- • AFRS 242 - Brazil in Crisis: Continuity and Change in Portuguese America
- • AFRS 243 - Twentieth Century Black Writers Against the Surveillance State
- • AFRS 244 - Indian Ocean
- • AFRS 247 - The Politics of Difference
- • AFRS 248 - Racial and Ethnic Group Politics in Popular Culture
- • AFRS 251 - Topics in Black Literatures
- • AFRS 252 - Health Inequalities and Activism
- • AFRS 255 - Race, Representation, and Resistance in U.S. Schools
- • AFRS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
- • AFRS 259 - Settler Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective
- • AFRS 266 - Art, Urgency, and Everyday Life in the United States
- • AFRS 269 - Gender and African American History
- • AFRS 272 - Modern African History
- • AFRS 276 - How to Write a Black Memoir
- • AFRS 282 - Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College
- • AFRS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
- • AFRS 298 - Independent Work
- • AFRS 299 - Research Methods
Africana Studies: III. Advanced
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