This interdisciplinary course will explore the historical and theoretical perspectives of African American women from the time of slavery to the post-civil rights era. A central concern of the course will be the examination of how Black women shaped, and were shaped by the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality in American culture. Not open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 25.

Same as ENG 248. How does gender matter in a black context? That is the question we will ask and attempt to answer through an examination of works by such authors as Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange and Alice Walker.

From the publication of "slave narratives" in the 18th century to the present, African Americans have used first-person narratives to tell their personal story and to testify about the structures of social, political, and economic inequality faced by black people. These autobiographical accounts provide rich portraits of individual experience at a specific time and place as well as insights into the larger socio-historical context in which the authors lived. This course will focus on the autobiographies of activist women.

Using a cultural studies perspective, this course will look at the distinction between and representational meanings of death and dying in Black culture. The course will explore how representations of death and dying manifest in various historical periods and cultural forms. It will also consider how gender, nationalism, sexuality, class and religion impact the discourse of death and dying. Finally and necessarily, we will consider death and dying's not-too-distant relatives; memory, agency, loss, love. Not open to first-year students.

An examination of the broad contours of the history of the Afro-American in the United States from ca. 1600-1960. Particular emphasis will be given to: how Africans influenced virtually every aspect of U.S. society; slavery and constitutional changes after 1865; the philosophies of W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and the rise and fall of racial segregation in the U.S.

An introduction to some of the major perspectives, themes, and issues in the field of Afro-American studies. Our focus will be on the economic, social and political aspects of cultural production, and how these inform what it means to read, write about, view and listen to Black culture.

Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies.

Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies.

Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies.