Fall 2002

African-American and African Studies Program

AAS 101 - Introduction to Afro-American and African Studies (4)

T R 1230-1345 MIN 125

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.

AAS 305 - Travel Accounts of Africa (3)

11:00-12:15 TR

Instructor: Hanan Sabea

The course explores how 18th and 19th century travel accounts about Africa have influenced ethnographic writings and popular views about the continent and its people. It traces the genealogy of methods of knowledge production, major concepts that are generated and inherited, underlying assumptions and recurring images that have shaped the representation of a place and people. We will analyze the accounts produced about Africa with special focus on categories of gender, nationality, profession of the authors, the purposes underlying their encounters, and the times and places they visited. This course is cross-listed as AAS 305

AAS 401 - Independent Study (3)

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AAS 405A Caliban's Reason: The Theoretical Legacies of Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James (3)

M 1300-1530 CAB 331

Instructor: Corey D. B. Walker

There has been a virtual renaissance in the study of Fritz Fanon and C.L.R. James in the United States academy. Both Fanon and James have been appropriatedbyscholars across disciplines - Political Science, Literature, and American Studies - and by scholars who advocate various methodological and theoretical approachepsychoanalysis, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. But why the (re)turn to Fanon and James? Why now? This seminar critically interrogates the works of thesetwo pivotal intellectual figures in the black radical tradition with an eye towards providing some provisional answers to these and other equally intriguing questions. Through a close and careful reading of their texts we will examine several themes addressed by each of these authors - the challenge of violence,theoriesof revolution, ideas of nation, questions of represention, and relationiships between race, gender, class, and capitalist political economy.

AAS 405B (3)

R 1400-1630 CAB 331

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AAS 405C – The Rebellious Slave in American Thought(3)

W 1300-1530 MIN 108

Instructor: Scot French

This seminar will examine how Americans, from Jefferson's day to our own time, have thought about race, slavery, citizenship, and revolutionary violence by reference to the figure of the rebellious slave. Examples will be drawn from popular culture and selected works of scholarship. Students will be introduced to theories and conceptual models employed by professional and lay historians in the eras of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights. Course requirements include short written responses to assigned readings and films, active participation in weekly discussions, and a 20-page research paper on a pre-approved topic. Readings will range from 150 to 200 pages a week. No previous coursework in History or African American Studies required.
Assigned readings may include excerpts from the following:
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
David Walker’s Appeal (1829)
The Confessions of Nat Turner and related documents (1831)
The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-32
Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1859)
William S. Drewry, The Southampton Insurrection (1900)
Arna Bontemps, Black Thunder (1936)
Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts (1941)
Stanley Elkins, Slavery (1959)
Eugene Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution (1979)
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
William Styron’s ‘Confessions of Nat Turner:’ Ten Black Writers Respond (1968)
Shirley Williams, Dessa Rose (1986)

AAS 451 - Distinguished Majors Program/Directed Research (3)

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AAS 452 - Distinguished Majors Program/Thesis (3)

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ANTH 529A – Topics in Race Theory (3)

T 1530-1800 CAB 331

Instructor: Wende Marshall

"Gender/Race and Power" will explore the imbrications of race and gender within and without the African Diaspora, with regard to questions of State power, conquest, colonialism/postcolonialism and global capitalism. We will be particularly attentive to the shortcomings of "race theory" in regard to gender and sexuality, and will attempt to chart masculinist assumptions within "canonical" race theory. Requirements: responsibility for leading each seminar; weekly précis on the readings; a final 20-page + bibliography paper.
Course meets the Second Writing Requirement.

Department of Anthropology

ANTH 225 - Racism, Nationalism, Multiculturalism (3)

M W 1400-1515 GIL 130

Instructor: Richard Handler

Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world.

ANTH/AAS 305 - Travel Accounts of Africa (3)

1530-1800 CAB 236

Instructor: Hanan Sabea

The course explores how 18th and 19th century travel accounts about Africa have influenced ethnographic writings and popular views about the continent and its people. It traces the genealogy of methods of knowledge production, major concepts that are generated and inherited, underlying assumptions and recurring images that have shaped the representation of a place and people. We will analyze the accounts produced about Africa with special focus on categories of gender, nationality, profession of the authors, the purposes underlying their encounters, and the times and places they visited. This course is cross-listed as AAS 305

ANTH 330 – Tournaments and Athletes (4)

T R 1100-1215 MIN 125

Instructor: George Mentore

This course will offer you a cross-cultural study of competitive games. Criticizing current theories about the "innocence" of sports while comparing and contrasting various athletic events from societies around the
world, it will provide an argument to explain the competitive bodily displays of athletes. It will select materials, which allow you to examine bodily movement, meaning, context, and process, in addition to the relations between athletes, officials, spectators, and social systems. Its general thesis will be that sport brings out the universal morals of community, challenges and tests them in controlled and unthreatening genres, yet never defeats them or makes them appear unjust.
The student must enroll in one of the obligatory discussion sections in 330D.

ANTH 356 – Vernacular Architecture (3)

T R 1100-1215 CAM 153

Instructor: Dell Upton

American Vernacular Architecture introduces a variety of North American vernacular building traditions, examining the design and building traditions of a variety of ethnic and regional cultures, the ways buildings and landscapes are used, and what they mean to their builders and users. Among the topics to be explored will be rural and urban house types, vernacular building systems, commercial architecture, the public landscape, and the vernacular landscapes of work and of religion, focusing on European, African, and Native American traditions that shaped the most familiar and widespread folk architectures, as well as on the urban landscapes of 19th- and 20th-century African Americans and European and Asian immigrants. In every case, we will look at built environments as expressions of ethnic and racial identity, organizers of social life, and conscious works of art.

ANTH 388–African Archaeology (3)

M W F 09:00-9:50 CAB 215

Instructor: Adria LaViolette

This course surveys archaeological knowledge currently available about ancient North Africa, the Sahara, and sub-Saharan Africa. The emphases will be on the Late Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the archaeology of the colonial period. The goal is to provide a firm grasp of the great transformations in pre-modern African history, and to provide students with information about some of the most important archaeological sites, discoveries, and research on the continent. Throughout the course, a theme will be the politics of the past, and the changing role of the practice of archaeology in Africa.

ANTH 529A – Topics in Race Theory (3)

T 1530-1800 CAB 331

Instructor: Wende Marshall

"Gender/Race and Power" will explore the imbrications of race and gender within and without the African Diaspora, with regard to questions of State power, conquest, colonialism/postcolonialism and global capitalism. We will be particularly attentive to the shortcomings of "race theory" in regard to gender and sexuality, and will attempt to chart masculinist assumptions within "canonical" race theory. Requirements: responsibility for leading each seminar; weekly précis on the readings; a final 20-page + bibliography paper.
Course meets the Second Writing Requirement.

Department of English Language and Literature

ENLT 247/001 – African American Autobiography (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 334

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Chronological survey in African American literature in the U.S. from its beginning in vernacular culture to works by Frederick Douglas, Zora Neale Hurston, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.

ENAM 313-Early African American Literature I (3)

T R 0930-1045 CAB 324

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

This course surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American prose, from l760, the date of Briton Hammon's Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings to l901, the year of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. We will work our way through canonical and non-canonical texts and through multiple genres-- captivity narratives, spiritual autobiographies, slave narratives, sermons, execution sermons, criminal narratives, speeches, novels--and will explore a number of issues related to literary history, culture, aesthetics, authorship, audience, genre, and narratology. Among the questions to be explored? How have literary historians given shape to or "storied" this tradition? How do black women's writings complicate these "fictions" of literary history? What is the relation between the black vernacular tradition and the black "literary" text? How do the white abolitionists and editors involved in the production of slave narratives trouble traditional conceptions of authorship? Who "authors" a speech by Sojourner Truth that is stenographically transcribed and appears in multiple versions? What confluence of factors and ideologies explain the "canonical" version of "Ain't I a Woman?" Other texts include Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Harriet Wilson's Our Nig; Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom; David Walker's Appeal; Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces, and Thomas Gray's Confessions of Nat Turner. We will work to situate these and other selections in the political, cultural, and critical controversies of their time and ours.

ENAM 381- Race in American Spaces (3)

W 1000-1230 CAM 108

Instructor: Ian Grandison

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ENAM 481C - African American Women Writers (3)

T R 0930-1045 BRN 332

Instructor: Angela M. Davis

We will read several novels and short stories by African American women, examining in particular how the authors portray black women as individuals and in the context of American society. This course requires active class participation, two written responses to readings (each 2 to 3 double spaced typed pages long) and a formal essay (12 to 15 pages long). The reading list is: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls; Toni Morrison, Sula, and Tar Baby; Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble; Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place.
Prerequisite: The course is first offered to fourth year majors in English, Women's Studies and Afro-American and African Studies

ENAM 483/ENTC 483 – Race and Performance in the 20th C. US (3)

T R 1230-1345 BRN 330

Instructor: Scott Saul

This course will look at how all sorts of Americans -- blacks, Jews, Latinos, Anglos, Asian-Americans and Native Americans -- have played at playing themselves, inventing new kinds of cultural forms for the purpose, or have tried not to play themselves, given the powerful ways that social categories like race can be ill-fitting, arbitrary, or unjust. We will be looking at twentieth-century stories of self-fashioning and self-exposure, masquerade and passing, slumming and nose-thumbing, and will be particularly interested in the interplay between the history of social movements and the bounds of cultural imagination. The course will bring together literature, film and music, with an emphasis on the different strands and practices of African-American music as they emerge over the course of the 20th century. Possible texts include: the novels Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (James Weldon Johnson), Passing (Nella Larson), Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin), and Dogeaters (Jessica Hagedorn); the films The Jazz Singer, Salt of the Earth, Imitation of Life, Little Big Man, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; the drama of Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy, Ed Bullins, Luis Valdez, Naomi Iizuka and Suzan-Lori Parks; the poetry of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown; the performance art of Adrian Piper and Guillermo Gomez-Peña; and the music of ragtime, early blues, R&B, hip-hop and rock en español.

Department of French Language and Literature

FREN 346 - La Litterature Francophone Macocaine (3)

M W F 1200-1250 CAB 225

Instructor: Majida Bargach

La littérature francophone marocaine prend ses racines dans l’Afrique, dans la France coloniale mais aussi dans le monde arabo-musulman et dans les culturesberbère et judéo-arabe. Depuis l’époque coloniale (1912-1956) jusqu’à nos jours, les écrivains marocains d’expression française ont tour à tour séduit ou choqué de part et d’autre de la Méditerranée. Après avoir étudié des oeuvres écrites pendant le Protectorat français au Maroc, nous aborderons la littérature contemporaine expression des rêves, des mythes et des aspirations politiques et sociales.
Lectures: Période coloniale: Ahmed Séfrioui, La boite à Merveilles; Driss Chraïbi, Le passé simple.Littérature d’aujourd’hui: Fouad Laroui, Les dents du topographe, Edmond Amrane el Maleh, 1000 ans et un jour. Expression féminine: Rajae Benchemsi, Fracture du désir.
Documents audiovisuals: Films: Souheil Benbarka, Amok; Nabil Ayouch, Ali Zaoua, prince des rues; Farida Belyazid, Ruses de femme. Sites sur l’internet: entretiens avec les auteurs francophones.
Travaux: Examen partiel, examen final, 5 essais de 2 à 3 pages et un projet de recherche par équipe.

FREN 411 – Francophone Literature of Africa (3)

T R 0930-1045 CAB 236

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

This course surveys the literary tradition in French, emphasizing post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights, and examines the role of cultural reviews in the development of this literary tradition.

Department of Politics

PLCP 212 – Politics of Developing Areas (3)

T R 0930-1045 MRY 209

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Surveys patterns of government and politics in non-Western political systems. Topics include political elites, sources of political power, national integration, economic development, and foreign penetration. Discussion Section Required.

PLPC 581- Politics of Sub Saharan Africa (3)

F 1530-1800 PV8 108

Instructor: Ben Fred-Mensah

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PLIR 582 - Africa and the World (3)

F 1230-1500 PV8 B003

Instructor: Ben Fred-Mensah

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Department of History

HIAF 201- Early African History Through the Era of the Slave Trade (4)

T R 0930-1045 CAB 345

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

Early African History draws Africans’ achievements in culture, politics, and economic strategies out from the mists of the once-dark continent’s unwritten past. Starting at the dawn of history and continuing in detail from the millennium before the Present Era, HIAF 201 follows the sometimes-surprising ways in which village elders, women, merchants, kings, cattle lords, and ordinary farmers pursued meaningful lives without the technologies that modern Americans take for granted. Thelast third of the course examines the ironic interplay of tragedy and achievement in a continent increasingly trapped in exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans,until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800. (A second semester of African history, HIAF 202, taught in the spring, narrates subsequent events down through twentieth-century colonialism and the post-1960 era of independence and impoverishment.)
HIAF 201 is a lower-division introductory survey. The instructor presents the major themes of early African history in lectures twice each week. Students meet additionally in discussion sections for review of readings, quizzes, and preparation for written assignments. Requirements include weekly short map quizzes, a mid-term examination (only the better of two tries counts), three short papers (4-5 pages) rehearsing historical questions for the mid-terms and considering the written sources on Africa’s past, and a final examination (format to be negotiated with the class). The course belongs to the Afro-American and African Studies curriculum, meets the “non-western” requirement for the major in History, and qualifies for the College “non-western perspectives” area requirement. Students may rewrite one of the short papers to fulfill the College Second Writing Requirement.
Readings revolve around weekly assignments in texts of varying perspectives (Shillington, History of Africa, Newman, Peopling of Africa, and the brand-new Ehret, Civilizations of Africa), for a total of about 225 pages. Other chapters and professional articles introduce the distinctive methodologies of doing history without written sources (including the famous Mande oral epic Sundiata), highlight interpretive (“historiographical”) issues, and consider concepts relevant to understanding early Africa. The total number of assigned pages runs at approximately 1200.
No strict formula determines final marks for HIAF 201. Students are graded according to their “highest consistent performance” in all aspects of the course, including attendance at lectures and participation in discussions, with ample allowance made for the unfamiliarity of the subject matter early in the term; a number of options allow students to devise personal combinations of graded work that will accommodate other academic commitments and highlight specialized abilities most accurately.
HIAF 201 presumes no prior knowledge of Africa or experience with the study of history. Since the subject is new to nearly everyone in the course, consistent application and preparation is expected, particularly early in the term. Students in all four years of their undergraduate careers and in all colleges of the University complete the course with success. Most find it a challenging opportunity to discover and examine assumptions about modern Americans – themselves included – they did not know they held.

HIAF 402- Race and Culture in South Africa and the American South (4)

T R 1400-1515 WIL 141A

Instructor: John Mason

HIAF 403 is a seminar in comparative history. Through biography, autobiography, and scholarship, we will look at the ways in which race became the overwhelming reality in the lives of South Africans and Americans, both black and white. South Africa and the American South are like distant cousins: instantly recognizable as members of the same family, but with distinctively different personalities. Both countries owe much of their early economic development to slavery. In both complex systems of racial domination shaped society for generations during and after the emancipation of the slaves. And in both the interracial struggle against racism gave rise to some of the most important people and events in their histories. At the same time, the differences between the two countries cannot be ignored. Most dramatically, in South Africa the descendants of European immigrants constitute a minority of the population; in the United States, of course, the reverse is true. Course materials include music, movies and videos, as well as biographies, autobiographies, and current scholarship.

HIAF 403-What's Wrong With Africa? (4)

T R 0930-1045 WIL141B

Instructor: John Mason

War, famine, disease, and unending poverty... This is the Africa that we too often read about in newspapers and magazines and see on TV. While this sort of coverage is misleading--Africa is not simply a continent-wide disaster area--there is enough truth in the images of human suffering to cause Africans and non-Africans alike to ask, What's wrong with Africa?
HIAF 402 explores the roots of Africa's multiple crises, focusing primarily on Africa's relations with the rest of the world, especially the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Topics include the overseas slave trade, conquest and colonialism, anti-colonial liberation struggles, and post-colonial politics and economics. Course materials include African novels and movies and current scholarship from Africa and the west.

HIAF 404- Independent Study in African History (3)

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Instructor: TBA

In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Enrollment is open to majors or non-majors.

HIST 504 - Monticello Internship (3)

Instructor: Peter Onuf

Directed research, largely in primary source materials, on topics relating to Jefferson's estate, life, and times. Directed by senior members of the Monticello staff.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. The internships are restricted to graduate students in history and to fourth-year undergraduate history majors. A maximum of two students each semester can be admitted to the course.

HIUS 307 - The Coming of the Civil War (3)

T R 0930-1045 MIN 125

Instructor: Michael F. Holt

This lecture course closely examines American history between 1815 and 1861. While its primary objective is to explain why a sectional conflict of long duration between the North and the South produced secession and Civil War in 1861, it also addresses in some detail the events and significance of the so-called "Age of Jackson." Economic development, westward expansion, and the escalation of sectional antagonism between Northerners and Southerners over time will all be addressed. But the primary focus of the lectures will be on political developments in these years, for only those developments, I believe, can explain why secession and war occurred when they did.
The course will have no discussion sections. Students' grades will be based on a midterm examination, an 8-10 page paper on the assigned course reading, and a comprehensive final examination. Students may take this course on a Credit/No Credit basis, but I require at least a C final average grade to earn a grade of Credit. Readings for the course are likely to include the following:
Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America
William Lee Miller, Arguing about Slavery
Richard E. Ellis, The Union at Risk
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Michael F. Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s
Minisha Sinha, The Counter-revolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
James M. McPherson, What They Fought For.

HIUS 324 – The American South in the 20th Century (3)

M W 1000-1050 MRY 209

Instructor: Grace Hale

This course examines the broad history of the American South in the twentieth century, with special emphasis on racial violence, the creation of segregation, class and gender relations within the region, the cultural and economic interdependence of black and white southerners, and the Civil Right Movement and its aftermath. Sources examined will include film, fiction, and music as well as more traditional historical sources like newspapers and court opinions. Students interested in American Studies, African American Studies, and Gender Studies are also welcome.Grading: midterm 25%; paper (5-7 pp) 25%; final exam 30%; participation in discussion sections and attendance at film and documentary screenings 20%.

HIUS 367 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

T R 1400-1450 MIN 125

Instructor: Julian Bond

This lecture course will examine the history, philosophies, tactics, events, and personalities of the Southern movement for civil rights from 1900 through the late 1960s, with special concentration on the years from the mid-'40s forward. The Southern movement--variously called the black struggle, the freedom fight, or the civil rights movement--was a black-lead mass movement which effectively ended legal segregation in the South by the middle 1960s.
Lectures will outline the movement's three over-lapping phases--lobbying, litigation and protest. In the first phase, from 1910 to the middle '30s, it developed a campaign of propaganda, education and lobbying to shape public opinion and create a climate favorable to civil rights. In phase 2, from the '30s to the '50s, it sought and won important test cases in housing segregation, the denial of the right to vote, and attacking separate and unequal schools. The last phase, lasting a decade from '55 to '65, was a period of protest--boycotts, sit-ins, and mass demonstrations--as well as organizing campaigns that lay the groundwork for minority electoral victories in the late '60s and '70s. Through the leadership of various national and local organizations, and through anti-segregation campaigns directed by indigenous and extra-communal leadership figures who built on extensive pre-existing networks of church, fraternal, social and labor organizations, drawing strength from a protest community rooted in black America and created in response to white supremacy, the movement succeeded in eliminating legal segregation in the United States. The movement's well-and lesser-known proponents and opponents and their stratagems will be examined. Discussion section required. Grades will be determined from a final examination, student participation in sections, and two five-to-seven page papers.
Texts: Wilkins, Roy, with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo Press
Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, Open Hand Press
Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit At The Welcome Table, American Heritage
Videos: "Eyes On The Prize -- America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965," # 1 -6; America At the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985, #1 & 2; PBS Video, Blackside, Inc. Boston. "The Road to Brown," William Elwood, Producer, California Newsreel.

HIUS 401A- Living in the Segregated South (3)

M 1300-1530 RFN 227A

Instructor: Clayton Brooks

Living in the Segregated South will focus on the daily experiences of individuals living in the American South (1890s through 1960s). The seminar offers students the opportunity to reevaluate a contested period of historical study and reconsider the meanings of segregation and southern through a variety of historical monographs, novels, autobiographies, and oral histories that offer diverse perspectives across class, race, and gender lines. Building on this knowledge, students will conduct their own historical inquiries into the twentieth century South. The seminar will provide a basis of support to guide this research project.

Department of Music

MUSI 212 - History of Jazz Music (3)

M W 1400-1515 OCH 101

Instructor: Scott Deveaux

This course is a survey of the history of jazz from its beginnings around 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century. Important instrumental performers, vocalists, composers, and arrangers are listened to and discussed. Lab section is required.

MUSI 369 – African Drumming and Dance (1-2)

T 1715-1930 OCH 107

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

A practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies), with the intention of performing at the end of the semester. Though no previous experience with music or dance is required, we will give special attention to developing tight ensemble dynamics, aural musicianship, and polymetric sensibility. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required of each class member, the goal being to develop an ongoing UVA African Drumming and Dance Ensemble. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor by audition on first day of class.

Department of Politics

PLPT 320 – African American Political Thought (3)

M W 1400-1515 CAB 118

Instructor: Lawrie Balfour

This course introduces students to central concepts and questions in African American political theory and practice since the 19th century. Themes to be explored include: the connection between slavery and democracy, competing conceptions of equality and freedom, the interconnections between race and other markers of political identity such as gender and class, and the role of historical memory in political life.

Department of Psychology

PSYC 487-The Minority Family: A Psychological Inquiry (3)

M 0900-1130 GIL 225

Instructor: Melvin Wilson

This course examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing "deficit" and "strength" research paradigms.
Format: Lecture discussion presentations. No. and type of exams: TBA. Papers or projects: TBA
Prerequisites: PSYC 306 and at least one course from each of the following groups: PSYC 210, 215 or 230, and PSYC 240, 250, or 260, and students in the Afro-American and African studies or studies in women and gender programs. Telephone Enrollment Restrictions: PSYC majors. If this course is full through ISIS: keep trying through ISIS.

Department of Religious Studies

RELA 276- African Religion in the Americas (3)

M W 1000-1050

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

This course explores the African religious heritage of the Americas. We will concentrate on African-derived religions in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Cuban Santeria, Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian Vodou, and the Jamaican Rastafari movement. North American slave religion, the black church, and African-American Islam will also be considered. We will seek to identify their shared religio-cultural "core" while developing an appreciation for the distinctive characteristics and historical contexts of each "New World" tradition. We will address topics such as ideas of God and Spirit; the significance of ritual sacrifice, divination, and initiation; the centrality of trance, ecstatic experience and mediumship; and the role of religion in the struggle for liberation and social justice. Final, Midterm, periodic quizzes on the readings, participation in discussion. Discussion Section required.

RELG 280 - African American Religious History (3)

M W 1100-1215 MCL 2009

Instructor: TBA

This course will survey the origin and development of African American religion in the United States. Centered on essential questions regarding the nature of black faith and the role religious institutions have played in black life, the course will explore the critical relationship between African American religion and African American cultural forms. We will address a number of themes, including: the connection between "the black church" and black political thought; race, gender, and religion; and Black Theology. We will also trace the development of African American religion in various historical contexts, particularly slavery (emphasis on Virginia), the Great Migration, and the Civil Rights era. Although this course will focus primarily on African American Protestantism, careful attention will be given to black Catholicism and the Nation of Islam.

RELA/RELI 390- Islam in Africa (3)

M W 1400-1515

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

This course offers an historical and topical introduction to Islam in Africa. After a brief overview of the central features of the Muslim faith, our chronological survey begins with the introduction of Islam to North Africa in the 7th century. We will trace the transmission of Islam via traders, clerics, and jihads to West Africa. We shall consider the medieval Muslim kingdoms; the development of Islamic scholarship and the reform tradition; the growth of Sufi brotherhoods; and the impact of colonization and de-colonization upon Islam. Our overview of the history of Islam in East Africa will cover: the early Arab and Asian mercantile settlements; the flowering of classical Swahili courtly culture; the Omani sultanates and present-day Swahili society as well as recent "Islamist" movements in the Sudan and other parts of the East African interior. Readings and classroom discussions provide a more in-depth exploration of topics encountered in our historical survey. Through the use of ethnographical and literary materials, we will explore questions such as the translation and transmission of the Qur'an, indigenization and religious pluralism; the role of women in African Islam; and African Islamic spirituality. Midterm, final, short paper, participation in discussion.

Department of Sociology

SOC 341 – Race and Ethnic Relations (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 316

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

The terms “race” and “ethnicity,” and issues associated with them are, to say the least, problematic. The meanings of these – and related – terms are unclear and policies that address “racial” issues are usually very contentious. Why is this the case? Why is race, seemingly, a source of unending conflict? This course will address these questions by examining the general issue of race from a historical and comparative perspective.

SOC 410 - African American Communities (3)

T R 1530-1645 CAB 320

Instructor: Rick Turner

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a clear, comprehensive understanding of the history, struggles and diversity of the African-American community. Emphasis will be placed on salient contemporary public issues as well as on the historical role of the African-American community within urban society and on the need for students to obtain knowledge of the cultural history of African-Americans. The course will approach these topics from a framework of analysis with consideration for African-American people's sociological and historical relationship to the political and economic system in America. By means of discussion, lectures, videos, reading, writing, and class presentation, this course will provide new insights and perspectives into the dynamics of the African-American community.

University Seminar

USEM 171/0020 – The 60s in Black and White (2)

T 1530-1730 WIL 140

Instructor: Julian Bond

The 1960’s saw a generation of young people begin to build movements which would stop a war abroad and start a war at home. What made these movements for peace and equal rights possible? What events triggered them? Who were participants? What is their legacy in the present? This seminar – through biographies activists in the movements – attempts to answer these and other questions as we examine personalities, events, and culture of the 1960s. Students will be required to write a comprehensive a paper on a 60’s subject – a participant, an organization, a movement.