Fall 2004

African-American and African Studies Program

AAS 100 – Black Nationalism (3)

T 1530-1800 CAB B029

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

This course examines black nationalist’s protracted struggle for political autonomy, economic independence, and cultural self-definition in twentieth-century America. Major events to be discussed include the rise and fall of the Marcus Garvey Movement during the 1920s; the emergence of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam after the close of World War II; the rise of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense during the turbulent sixties; and the movement for the creation of Black Studies programs and departments in the post-Civil Rights era. Students will have the opportunity to explore the politics of a wide range of black radicals, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), and Assata Shakur. Scholarly investigations of black nationalism normally conclude with an analysis of the disintegration of the Black Power Movement in the early 1970s, but this course will also investigate the contemporary manifestations of black nationalism. Exploring diverse topics such as the Million Man March in 1995, the grassroots movement for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the race consciousness articulated in the music of such hip-hop artists as Public Enemy, Lauryn Hill, and Krs-One, students will investigate the continuing significance and visibility of black nationalism in American politics and culture. Students will read an average of 120 pages per week. Grades will be based on class attendance and participation, two short essays (5-7 pages) and one fifteen-page paper. This course satisfies the CLAS second writing requirement.

AAS 101 – Africa In The Atlantic World (4)

T R 1230-1345 WIL 301

Instructor: Scot French

This team-taught course is part of a year-long survey of the history and culture of Africans in Africa and people of African descent in the Americas. During this semester, we will cover a variety of topics, including African societies before 1800, the Atlantic slave trade, literatures of the Atlantic World, the origins and development of New World plantation societies, Africana religions, life and labor in the United States, and the protracted process of emancipation. Students should come away with an understanding of the major problems, events, and people that shaped the African-American experience. At the same time, we will gain a sense of how that experience fit into the history of people of African descent in the larger Atlantic world.

AAS 315/RELC 305 – Theologies Of Liberation (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 337

Instructor: Corey D. B. Walker

Who is God to the oppressed? What does it mean to do Christian theology from the underside? This course will critically examine the ideas, methodologies, and orientations of different theological trajectories within the field of Liberation Theology, including African-American, Gay/Lesbian, Latin American, Minjung, Mujerista, and Womanist theologies of liberation. The course will focus on theological method, modes of social and economic analysis particularly those perspectives inspired by varieties of critical theory and philosophies of liberation, and challenges to traditional Christian theologies.

AAS 305 – Travel Accounts Of Africa (3)

T R 1700-1815 CAB 340

Instructor: Hanan Sabea

The course explores how 18th- and 19th-century travel accounts about Africa have influenced ethnographic writing 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 places and peoples in Africa. We will analyze the accounts produced about Africa in terms of the symbolic, technical and ideological conventions used by the writers. We will pay special attention to the gender, nationality, and profession of the authors, the purpose for their travels, and the times and places they visited.

AAS 323/ HIUS 323 – Rise And Fall Of The Slave South (3)

M W 1100 -1150 MIN 125

Instructor: Edward L. Ayers

This course will explore the emergence and destruction of the most powerful slave society of the modern world: the American South. It will begin with the sixteenth century and extend through the Civil War and Reconstruction. We will examine the lives of slaves and slaveowners, small farmers and large planters, men and women, soldiers and civilians. Readings will be diverse, including original documents, materials on the Web, fiction, and secondary accounts. Requirements include a midterm and final as well as a substantial research paper. Energetic participation in a weekly discussion section is a central part of the course.

AAS 365/HIUS 365 – African-American History To 1865 (3)

M W 1400-1450 CAB 345

Instructor: Reginald Butler

This lecture course explores the history and culture of African Americans in British colonial North America and the United States through 1865. We will examine changing constructions of race, gender, and class, as well as the major themes, problems, events, structures, and personalities associated with this period. We will devote some portion of each class to the close examination of primary sources, with a particular focus on the intersection of the "local" and the "global." Weekly reading assignments will average about 150-175 pages. Grade will be based on participation, weekly reading responses, one short paper, a midterm, and a final.

AAS 401 – Independent Study (3)

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AAS 405B – Imprisoned America

M 1300-1530 MIN 108

Instructor: Ethan Blue

The vast overrepresentation of people of color behind bars in the United States demands that we place American criminal justice in the long history of racial dominance and economic conflict, from chattel slavery and American Indian extermination to the contemporary prison-industrial complex. While the course focuses on the particularities of incarceration in the United States, tools gained and lessons learned will be applicable to analyzing radically disenfranchised populations - immigrants, lepers, juvenile delinquents, and sexual deviants - in other times and locations. In addition to weekly readings, students will write a twenty page paper on a subject of their choosing. Selected readings: Asha Bandele, The Prisoners' Wife; David Garland, Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory; George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson; Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations in the United States; and Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis.

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

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AAS 452 – Distinguished Majors Program/Thesis (3)

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Department of Anthropology

SWAH 101 - Introduction To Swahili (3)

MWF 0900-0950

Instructor: Yared Fubusa

Introduces the most widely spoken indigenous language of East-Central Africa. Focuses on speaking, comprehension, reading and writing skills, and the language in its cultural context.

SWAH 102 - Introduction To Swahili (3)

MWF 1000-1050

Instructor: Yared Fubusa

Continues from SWAH 101.

NOTE: SWAH 101 and 102 are offered under the auspices of the Anthropology Department. A course in Swahili may count toward the Anthropology major, as an elective within the major.

ANTH 225 – Nationalism, Racism, And Multiculturalism (3)

T R 1230-1345 MCL 1020

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 305 -- Travel Accounts Of Africa

TR 1700-1815 CAB 340

Instructor: Hanan Sabea

The course explores how 18th- and 19th-century travel accounts about Africa have influenced ethnographic writing 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 places and peoples in Africa. We will analyze the accounts produced about Africa in terms of the symbolic, technical and ideological conventions used by the writers. We will pay special attention to the gender, nationality, and profession of the authors, the purpose for their travels, and the times and places they visited.

ANTH 385 Folklore In America (3)

TR 1100-1215

Instructors: Charles Perdue

This course will focus primarily on Anglo- and Afro-American traditional culture and, within that domain, deal with problems of definition, origin, collection, and analysis of the main genres of folklore--narrative and song.

ANTH 401A Senior Seminar:Anthropology Of Colonialism In Virginia (3)

R 1400-1630

Instructor: Jeffrey Hantman

This course considers the history and cultural contexts of European colonialism in Virginia in the 16th and 17th centuries, and its long-term effects on Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans. Through archaeological and documentary sources, we will examine the different responses of Indian people to the arrival of Europeans. Archaeology and ethnohistory will also be used to assess the long-term impact of tobacco cultivation and European expansion on Native Americans and the enslaved African Americans who arrived in the 17th century. Finally, we will examine the lingering effects of colonial policies into the 20th and 21st centuries.

ANTH 401B Senior Seminar: Postcolonial Inequalities & Anthropology Today (3)

T 1530-1800

Instructor: Ravindra Khare

A discussion of social inequalities, mainly class, caste, race, religion, age and gender under postcolonial and post-industrial conditions in a comparative cultural and regional perspective. A distinct (but not exclusive) focus will be on contemporary India and America. Very different yet in some ways very similar, these two distant cultures, societies and countries afford distinct opportunities to study entrenched inequalities of caste, class, race and religion, alongside a pursuit of democracy, equality, and civil and human rights. The last third of the course will be devoted to reviewing related and relevant concerns, interests and directions now evident in the organization and activities of American anthropology today.

ANTH 543 – African Language Structures (3)

M W 1400-1515 BRK LIB

Instructor: J. Sapir

The course will cover the classification of African languages, selected grammatical typologies, African lexicography, and examples of oral literature. Students will give presentations on these topics with respect to specific languages. The intention of the course is to investigate the considerable variety of linguistic types present in sub-Saharan Africa.
Permission of the instructor is required.

Department of English Language and Literature

ENAM 313 – African American Survey (3)

T R 1100-1215 MRY 113

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

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 481A – African-American Women Writers (3)

T R 0930-1045 CAB B026

Instructor: Angela 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, four written responses to readings (each one typed page long) and a formal essay (ten to twelve 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 restricted to fourth year majors in English, Women's Studies and African-American and African Studies.

ENCR 481B – Race, Space, And Culture (3)

W 1830-2100 CAM 135

Instructors: K. Ian Grandison

This multi-disciplinary course explores racial and other cultural identities in relation to the built environment and other conceptions of space. How has the concept of race helped to shape our interactions with space in both conscious and unconscious ways? How have our historical constructs of space helped to determine, in both articulated and inarticulate ways, what it means to identify with, or against, one cultural identity or another? Co-taught by Marlon Ross of English and African-American Studies and K. Ian Grandison of Landscape Architecture and American Studies, the course draws from and beyond the disciplines represented by its instructors to synthesize ways of interrogating the written, graphic, filmic, and field resources necessary for broadening our understanding of space. The course provides a forum for weekly discussion hinged on targeted readings (such as James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan, Oscar Newman's Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design, Philip Deloria's Playing Indian, Leslie Kanes Weisman's Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, and Marc Leepson's Saving Monticello: The Levy Familys Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built), films (such as National Geographic's Gorilla and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing), and local field trips (such as to Woolen Mills, Monticello, and Vinegar Hill). Relating to the inter-disciplinary thrust of the course, students will have the opportunity to work in small teams to lead selected class sessions, to complete a research project, and to participate in a final Open-House that serves as the capstone for the course.

Department of French Language and Literature

FREN 346 – Topics in African Culture (3)

M W 1300-1350 CAB 224

Instructor:

La littérature francophone marocaine prend ses racines dans l'Afrique, la France coloniale mais aussi dans le monde arabo-musulman et dans les cultures berbères et judéo-arabe. C'est cette extraordinaire mixité culturelle et ethnique que des auteurs marocains d'expression française vont illustrer dans leurs ouvrages, depuis l'époque coloniale jusqu'à nos jours. Après avoir étudié des œuvres écrites durant le protectorat français au Maroc ou relatant cette période, nous aborderons la littérature contemporaine expression des rêves, des mythes et des aspirations politiques et sociales.

FREN 570 – African Literature

T 1530-1800 BRN 334

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Studies the principal movements and representative authors writing in French in Northern, Central, and Western Africa, with special reference to the islands of Madagascar and Mauritius. Explores the literary and social histories of these regions.

FRTR 329 -- Comparative Caribbean Literature & Culture

M 1530-1800 CAB 316

Instructor: A. James Arnold

This is an upper-division cross-disciplinary course; it supposes an introduction to literary, historical or anthropological study. The question to be examined throughout the semester is: Who/What is Creole? Literary texts (poems, novels) as well as popular genres will be examined for what they tell us about the construction of national identity. Students will be encouraged to work in small groups to develop a project for class presentation. Multi-media presentations will be welcome. There will be a midterm and a final examination or a research paper. Authors will include several of the following: Alexis (Haiti), Brathwaite (Barbados), Carpentier (Cuba), Condé (Guadeloupe), Naipaul and Lovelace (Trinidad), Walcott (St. Lucia).

Department of History

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

T R 1230-1345 MCL 1004

Instructor: James Lafleur

Early African History draws Africans' distinctive achievements in culture, politics, and economic strategies out from the mists of the once-dark continent's unwritten past. Starting with the dawn of history and taking the story up 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. The last 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 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 African-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 papers to fulfill the College Second Writing Requirement.
Readings revolve around weekly assignments in a text (Shillington, History of Africa), for a total of about 225 pages. Other assigned 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 formula determines final marks. Students are graded according to their "highest consistent performance" in all aspects of the course, including attendance at lectures and participation in discussions, with allowance made for the unfamiliarity of the subject matter early in the term; a number of options allow students to devise a combination of graded work that will accommodate other academic commitments and reflect 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 302 – History Of Southern Africa (3)

T R 0930-1045 CAB 324

Instructor: John Mason

HIAF 302 is a lecture and discussion course on the history of southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, emphasizing South Africa. The course begins with a look at the precolonial African societies of the region, before moving on to a study of the conquest, colonialism, the rise and fall of apartheid, and the recent rebirth of African independence.
By the end of the nineteenth century, all of the African peoples of southern Africa had been conquered by European powers and incorporated into Dutch, British, Portuguese, and German colonial empires. Conquest did not come easily. Every society in the region resisted European domination fiercely, sometimes for many decades before being finally defeated. Colonialism and African responses to it dramatically reshaped societies in southern African, transforming political and economic systems, gender and class relations, and even religious beliefs.
Resistance to colonialism assumed new forms in the twentieth century, as Africans began to bridge ethnic divisions to create multi-ethnic trade unions, political parties, and liberation movements. Particularly in South Africa, multi-ethnic nationalism evolved into nonracialism, uniting blacks and progressive whites in the ultimately successful struggle against apartheid.
HIAF 302 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history.

HIAF 319 – African Environmental History (3)

T R 1530-1645 MCL 1004

Instructor: James Lafleur

HIAF 402 – Race And Popular Culture In South Africa And The United States (4)

T R 1400-1515 RAN 212

Instructor: John Mason

HIAF 402 is a seminar in comparative South African and American history. We will look at the ways in which popular culture--especially music, film, and sports--reflects South African and American racial categories and identities and, at the same time, helps to create them. Course materials include scholarship, biography, autobiography, music, and film.
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.
A close look at popular culture will open a window on what is perhaps the central irony of both South African and American cultural history--that the harsh realities of racial oppression and racial segregation have produced a culture that is not segregated at all. It is neither black nor white, neither African nor European, but utterly and thoroughly mixed. It is no accident, for instance, that the most distinctively American forms of popular music--blues and spirituals, bluegrass and country, jazz and rock--were born of mixed African and European cultural parentage.
Students will participate actively in class discussions and prepare a research paper on a subject of their own choosing.

HIAF 404 – Independent Study In African History (3)

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Instructor: Staff

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 Intership (3)

M 1500-1830 PV5 109

Instructor: Phyllis Leffler

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. 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. 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 100 – Black Nationalism (3)

T 1530-1800 CAB B029

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

This course examines black nationalist’s protracted struggle for political autonomy, economic independence, and cultural self-definition in twentieth-century America. Major events to be discussed include the rise and fall of the Marcus Garvey Movement during the 1920s; the emergence of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam after the close of World War II; the rise of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense during the turbulent sixties; and the movement for the creation of Black Studies programs and departments in the post-Civil Rights era. Students will have the opportunity to explore the politics of a wide range of black radicals, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), and Assata Shakur. Scholarly investigations of black nationalism normally conclude with an analysis of the disintegration of the Black Power Movement in the early 1970s, but this course will also investigate the contemporary manifestations of black nationalism. Exploring diverse topics such as the Million Man March in 1995, the grassroots movement for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the race consciousness articulated in the music of such hip-hop artists as Public Enemy, Lauryn Hill, and Krs-One, students will investigate the continuing significance and visibility of black nationalism in American politics and culture. Students will read an average of 120 pages per week. Grades will be based on class attendance and participation, two short essays (5-7 pages) and one fifteen-page paper. This course satisfies the CLAS second writing requirement.

HIUS 323/AAS 323 – Rise And Fall Of The Slave South (3)

T R 0930-1045 MIN 125

Instructor: Edward L. Ayers

This course will explore the emergence and destruction of the most powerful slave society of the modern world: the American South. It will begin with the sixteenth century and extend through the Civil War and Reconstruction. We will examine the lives of slaves and slave owners, small farmers and large planters, men and women, soldiers and civilians.
Readings will be diverse, including original documents, materials on the Web, fiction, and secondary accounts. Requirements include a midterm and final as well as a substantial research paper; the course fulfills the Second Writing Requirement. Energetic participation in a weekly discussion section is a central part of the course.

HIUS 328 – History Of Virginia To 1865 (3)

M W F 1300-1350 GIL 190

Instructor: William Thomas

This course covers the social, political, and economic development of Virginia up to 1865. The course examines key subjects in Virginia's colonial and antebellum history: the life and culture of Virginia's Native Americans, the colonial experience at Jamestown and white colonial settlement, the development of slavery in the Chesapeake region, the establishment of colonial society, the Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and the secession of Virginia in 1861.
Requirements for the course include three 5-7 page papers and a final exam. One of the papers will include research in Alderman Library's Special Collections. The course will feature both lecture and discussion during the weekly meetings. The course will use a reader of primary source readings from the period, such as Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia and other documents, autobiographies, and texts. In addition, the course will include some of the following readings:
T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes, Myne Own Ground
Charles Dew, Apostles of Disunion
Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Rhyss Issac, The Transformation of Virginia
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Helen Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia

HIUS 347 – The American Working Class Since The Civil War

M W F 1200-1250 CAB 431

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

This course examines the cultural lives, labor struggles, and political activities of the American working class from the end of the Civil War to the Clinton era. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze how working women and men both shaped and were shaped by the rise of big business during the Gilded Age, the social upheavals of the World War I era, the economic hardships brought about by the Great Depression, the social policies of the New Deal, the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, and continuing debates over the meanings of work, citizenship, and democracy. Significant attention will be given to the organizations workers created to advance their economic interests. The course will explore the success and failures of the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Communist Party. A major issue to be explored in our discussions of these organizations will be the ways in which laboring people have been divided along racial, gender, ethnic, and regional lines. Since working-class history is about more than the struggle of laboring people to improve their material condition, this course will also focus on other topics, such as workers’ family life, leisure activities (music and sports), customs and thoughts, and religious beliefs.
Required texts for the course may include Jacqueline Jones’ A Social History of the Laboring Classes, Tera W. Hunter’s To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After The Civil War, Nelson Lichtenstein’s State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, Neil Foley, White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, Linda Gordon’s Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935, and Bruce Nelson’s Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. Readings will average no more than 150 pages a week. Grades will be based on attendance and class participation, a mid-term examination, two short essays (5 pages), and one ten page paper. This course satisfies the CLAS second writing requirement.

AAS 365/HIUS 365 – African-American History To 1865 (3)

M W 1400-1450 CAB 345

Instructor: Reginald Butler

This lecture course explores the history and culture of African Americans in British colonial North America and the United States through 1865. We will examine changing constructions of race, gender, and class, as well as the major themes, problems, events, structures, and personalities associated with this period. We will devote some portion of each class to the close examination of primary sources, with a particular focus on the intersection of the "local" and the "global." Weekly reading assignments will average about 150-175 pages. Grade will be based on participation, weekly reading responses, one short paper, a midterm, and a final.

HIUS 367 – History Of The Civil Rights Movement (3)

T R 1400-1450 WIL 402

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 401 C – Civil Rights Era In Virginia (3)

R 1300-1530 PV8 108

Instructor: William Thomas

This course examines the important events in Virginia during the long period of civil rights battles from the 1930s through the 1970s. This course will examine the politics, media, culture, and economy of Virginia in this period. Virginia was the scene of some of the earliest court battles over desegregation, and one of the cases in Brown v. Board of Education emerged from Prince Edward County. Virginia's segregationist massive resistance program was one of the strongest in the South in the 1950s, resulting in a statewide crisis of public school closings. Prince Edward County officials closed their schools for nearly five years rather than integrate them, and in Danville violence erupted in the summer of 1963 over civil disobedience and protests. The Supreme Court decided key Virginia cases with national repercussions that ended bars on miscegenation, threw out token integration in schools, and removed the poll tax in elections. This course seeks to explore the origins and explanations for these dramatic events, and will focus particularly on new areas of research in this period such as white Protestantism, African American women's history, the role of the Cold War, and media and cultural influences.
Readings will focus on both Virginia and comparative accounts of the period in Southern history, including for example: J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy, Robert Pratt, The Color of Their Skin, David Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, Jeff Woods, Black Struggle Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-communism in the South, Sarah Patton Boyle, The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in a Time of Transition, and Len Holt, An Act of Conscience.
Students will also have access to and work with a rare archive of television news footage from two Virginia television stations (see www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv). Research papers for this course may be on any subject broadly conceived under the course title, and students interested in a wide range of subjects are especially welcome.

HIUS 401 D – The Sixties In Stereo: The Kennedy Years

W 1530-1800 CAB 134

Instructor: David Coleman

In the 1960s America faced unprecedented challenges and opportunities. At home, the struggle for civil rights, a minimum wage, full employment -- in short, a greater society -- politicized a new generation, bringing many into the streets. Abroad, the Cold War with the Soviet Union reached the brink of a nuclear exchange while the strategy of containing communism led to the deaths of over 50,000 servicemen in Vietnam.
Although each would wield power in his own way, presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson both understood the unusual nature of their time and chose to create an extensive historical record of what they did in the White House. Between them these presidents secretly recorded over 1,000 hours of meetings, monologues and telephone conversations, a collection of material that provides an unparalleled view into the workings of the American government at the highest levels.
This semester students will be introduced to the Kennedy tapes. Students will engage a wide variety of source material ranging from secondary sources, traditional primary sources, to multimedia sources and the tapes themselves to discuss historical methods, the evolution of historical interpretation, and the fragility of primary sources. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these once secret tapes as historical sources? The goal of the course is to give students the tools they need to employ these remarkable sources in a research paper on the Kennedy era.

HIUS 401 G – An Exploration In Southern Women’s History: From Segregation To Civil Rights

R 1300-1530 CAB 412

Instructor: Lori Schuyler

This writing intensive course is intended to introduce students to the research and writing of history. Through readings and discussion, students will examine how segregation, industrialization, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement affected the lives of southern women, and how women responded to and shaped these changes in southern society. During the first five weeks, students will read and discuss several major studies of southern women's history. Students will also begin formulating their research topics and exploring primary sources. In the remaining weeks of the semester, students will research and write an article-length (20-30pp) paper that examines some aspect of southern women's history since 1865.
Required Readings May Include:
Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom
Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow
Elna Green, Southern Strategies
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
Georgina Hickey, Hope and Danger in the New South city : Working-class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940
Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Womanhood
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

Department of Music

MUSI 212 – History Of Jazz Music (3)

M W 1300-1350 WIL 402

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 307 – Worlds Of Music (3 )

T R 930-1045 OCH 107

Instructor: TBA

To understand the complexities of global musics, we must begin at home appreciating the diversity of musics within the U.S.-"the global is in the local" (Fabian 1998, 5). This course is an introduction to ethnomusicology primarily for music majors featuring case studies of contemporary musical traditions from the twentieth century.
The study of ethnomusicology is a study of understanding otherness and understanding not only how other people make music, but also the way we tend to perceive other musics as less complex than ours, and we tend to appreciate the music but not the people.
Prerequisite: Major in music or anthropology, or permission of instructor.

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

T R 1700-1900 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

PLIR 424A – Globalizing Africa :The International Political Economy Of Africa

TR PV8 103 1400-1515

Instructor: Andrew Lawrence

Given Africa's immense size and geographical, cultural and political diversity, and given political economy's broad conceptual reach, any course on the International Political Economy (IPE) of Africa is bound to be selective in its focus and themes. Additionally, some themes will apply to some countries and regions more than others. However, for every theme covered, this course gives a central place to the voices and experiences of Africans, past and present. The course will analyze perspectives on colonial legacies and postcolonial dynamics; the nature of the African state; regime change and democratization; regional wars and complex humanitarian crises; the politics of debt, structural adjustment, and the AIDS crisis; relations with the U.S. and other major powers; and regional and international organizations.
Restricted to Third-Year, Fourth Year, Politics

PLCP 583 – Modern South African Politics In Comparative Perspective

W CAB 318 1300-1530

Instructor: Andrew Lawrence

This course will examine twentieth (and early 21st.) century South African politics with a focus on the rise and fall of apartheid, in the context of the historical circumstances that produced it, the personal experiences of South Africans under apartheid, and the local and international networks and movements of opposition it generated. Course materials include historical and political analyses, autobiographies, fiction, and film. Through comparative reference to the U.S. and other contexts, the course also examines critical theories of race, racial formation, and segregation. It further investigates the dynamics of colonialism, and its role in creating apartheid doctrine in South Africa, and the shifting relationship between apartheid and (both national and international) capitalism.
Restricted to Third-Year, Fourth Year, Politics

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.
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 African-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 275 – African Religions (3)

T R 0930-1045 CAB 345

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Introduces the mythology, ritual, philosophy, and religious art of the traditional religions of sub-Saharan Africa, also African versions of Christianity and African-American religions in the New World.

RELA 390 – Islam In Africa (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 319

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Historical and topical introduction to Islam in Africa. Cross-listed as RELI 390.
Prerequisite: RELA 275, RELI 207, RELI 208, or instructor permission.

RELC 305 – Theologies Of Liberation (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 337

Instructor: Corey D. B. Walker

Who is God to the oppressed? What does it mean to do Christian theology from the underside? This course will critically examine the ideas, methodologies, and orientations of different theological trajectories within the field of Liberation Theology, including African-American, Gay/Lesbian, Latin American, Minjung, Mujerista, and Womanist theologies of liberation. The course will focus on theological method, modes of social and economic analysis particularly those perspectives inspired by varieties of critical theory and philosophies of liberation, and challenges to traditional Christian theologies.

RELG 321 – African American Religious History

T R 1100-1215 MIN 130

Instructor: TBA

Department of Sociology

SOC 341 – Race And Ethnic Relations (3)

T R 1400-1515 CAB 319

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 216

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.

SOC 442 – Sociology Of Inequality (3)

M W 1530-1645 CAB 338

Instructor: Bethany P. Bryson

A survey of basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, both their causes and their consequences for social conflict and social change.