Africana Studies 366 - TOPC: PUBLIC HISTORY & DIASPOR

Topics course.: The course, which is co-taught by Paula Giddings (Smith) and Bayo Holsey (Duke) via real-time video-conferencing, investigates the relationship between memory weighted by race and gender and the construction of public history in the U.S. and the diaspora. The course includes texts and guest lectures by authors from the Meridians: feminism, race and transnationalism journal. Public history includes memorialization, texts and popular culture. (E)

Topic: Public History and (Dis)Respectability: Its Politics, History and Relevance. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores