Africana Studies 366 - SEM: BLACKNESS IN AMERICA

Topics course.: In this course we investigate and build a critical working vocabulary about 20th-century black migrant communities. Central to our work is exploring the tension between how these communities have been defined (via notions of pathology, disease and death) and how they have defined themselves through their spatial and environmental practices around belonging, collectivity and place. These are queer or non-normative modes of urbanism, and they challenge dominant idioms of territoriality. We glean these practices by interrogating planner documents; reading critically anti-racist texts; and analyzing music, poetry and vernacular architectural practices

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores