What constitutes the field of study called Black Political Economy? This course excavates a radical
tradition of political economy in African diaspora studies, a tradition which has sheltered some of the
most thoroughgoingly insightful perspectives on Black oppression in the Americas over the last 500
years. The course will take a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary approach which draws on several fields,
including Africana intellectual history, political economy, sociological studies and cultural studies in its

Offered as AFR 245 and ENG 282. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movements in Afican-American history. This class focuses on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers include Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.

Black artist-activists have long used art and media as a means of chronicling, demanding, and inducing change. Examining film, photography, visual art, theater, literature and social media among other forms this course considers the work of Black artists and activists, their relationship to the political, and the reception of their work. We critically engage performances and representations of Blackness to explore Black subjectivity and think through how artists and activists craft space for Black agency.

This course examines historical, critical and theoretical perspectives on the development of Black feminist theory/praxis. The course draws from the 19th century to the present, but focuses on the contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that achieved notoriety in the 1970s and initiated a global debate on Western and global feminisms. Central to our exploration is the analysis of the intersectional relationship between theory and practice, and of race, to gender and class.

An examination of the broad contours of the history of African American people in the United States from ca. 1600 to 1960. Particular emphasis is given to how African Americans influenced virtually every aspect of U.S. society; slavery and Constitutional changes after 1865; debates on the meaning of freedom and citizenship; and the efforts to contest discrimination, segregation, and anti-Black violence.

Using both case studies and lectures, this class explores the decisions involved in preparing financial statements for both profit and non-profit entities, how those decisions impact financial statements and how an understanding of the accounting methods employed are necessary to assess the financial status of the entity under review.