Anthropology 391E - S-Afroam Material & Expressive
Fall
2026
01
3.00
Whitney Battle-Baptiste
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
20510
Machmer Hall room E-17
wbbaptiste@anthro.umass.edu
This course explores the rich landscape of African American material and expressive culture from the era of enslavement to the present day. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from anthropology, history, African American Studies, art history, and cultural studies, the course examines how Black communities create, use, and interpret objects, spaces, performances, and aesthetic practices as forms of identity, resistance, memory, and everyday life.