Fall 2005

African-American and African Studies

AAS 101: Africa in the Atlantic World (4)

Prof. Scot French

Tuesdays–Thursdays 12:30-1:45 plus discussion

Wilson 301

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. Students are encouraged, but not required, to take both semesters of this course.

AAS 305: Plantations in Africa and the Caribbean (3)

(cross-listed as ANTH 324)

Prof. Hanan Sabea

Tuesdays-Thursdays 12:30-1:45

Cabell 345

This course seeks a comparative analysis of plantations in Africa and the Americas by examining them as places of work and spaces of sociality. It examines the historical linkages between Africa and the Americas in the establishment and reproduction of plantations as they relate to the colonial empires, the differentiated entrenchment of capitalism around the globe, and correspondent movement of ideas, people and things. We will examine the lives people made on plantations as documented in the practices and experiences of slaves, workers, planters, and traders, and explore the socio-economic and political implications of plantations of the localities in which they have been operating.

AAS 306: The Ethics of Black Power (3)

(cross-listed as RELC 306)

Prof. Corey D.B. Walker

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

Cabell 330

In his now classic text Blood in My Eye, George Jackson writes, “All revolution should be love inspired.” This lecture course will plumb the depths of Jackson’s remark by critically interrogating the ethical dimensions of the Black Power concept and the cultural, ideological, and political interventions influenced by this conceptual revolution. We will explore the ethics of Black Power in relation to the revolutionary exploits of artists, activists, and intellectuals in their tremendous efforts to challenge and transform the capitalist, racist, and sexist hegemony of the United States and the Western world in the second half of the twentieth century. To this end, we will revisit the work of a number of thinkers, movements, and cultural and political formations, including Albert Cleage, Angela Davis, Vicki Garvin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Larry Neal, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, February 1st Movement, SOBU/YOBU, African Liberation Support Committee, Black Arts Movement, Malcolm X Liberation University, Institute of the Black World, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. We will also assess the ethical parameters of the various ideological tendencies that influenced the conceptual formulation and political articulation of Black Power including Black Nationalism, Feminism, Liberalism, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and Pan-Africanism.

AAS 323: The Rise and Fall of the Slave South (3)

(cross-listed as HIUS 323)

Prof. Edward L. Ayers

Mondays–Wednesdays 11-11:50 plus discussion

Minor 125

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.
Requirements include substantial research in primary documents in Alderman Library. Research topics are broad and require students willing to tackle open-ended assignments. Readings will be diverse, including original documents, materials on the Web, fiction, and secondary accounts. Energetic participation in a weekly discussion section is a central part of the course.

AAS 405A: Race and American Islam (3)

Prof. Jamillah A. Karim

Wednesdays 1–3:30

Minor 108

This course will explore how race has helped to shape a distinctively American Islam. Focusing on the experiences of African American, South Asian, and Arab Muslims, the course will examine both black and immigrant responses to American racism. How do American Muslims’ distinct ethnic histories produce different forms of protest to white supremacy? How do they produce different levels of assimilation into the dominant society? How do Islamic ideals inform their resistance and accommodation into the larger American society? And how do they use Islam to overcome racial barriers? The course will also examine the intersections of race, class, and gender. How does the interplay of race-class-gender identities create competing and overlapping notions of American Islam?

AAS 405B: Geographies of the Black Atlantic (3)

Ms. Mieka Brand

Tuesdays 1-3:30

Minor 108

How do people shape the spaces they live in? In what ways are people's lives and experiences themselves shaped by the spaces within which they occur? This course takes 'space' as the central theme for exploring literature on the African diaspora. Ideas about space (and related concepts such as place, landscape, geography, etc.) will grounds us as we study scholarly works by and about people of African descent. Readings will be drawn from a broad span of disciplines, including history, anthropology, geography, literature, cultural studies, and material culture. In our discussions will tie these readings together as we study their varying perspectives on geographies of the Black Atlantic. We will consider questions such as: What are the spaces that people of African descent have carved out for themselves?and how do they reflect particular cultural identities? How have spaces of segregation and division (Plantations, Jim Crow cars, Urban ghettos, for example) informed ideas about race and racial identities? How have African descendants re-imagined and reclaimed marginalized spaces? How have movements (geographical, political or social) contributed to people's understandings of the Black Atlantic?
Readings for the course will include works by Paul Gilroy ("Routes and Roots"); John Jackson (Harlemworld); Liisa Malkki (Purity and Exile); St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton (Black Metropolis); Griffin and Fish (Stranger in the Village); Saunders and Shackleford (Urban Renewal and the end of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia); Upton and Vlach (Common Places); and others. Assignments for the course will include two short papers (~5 pages each), two response papers to fieldsite visits (~1-2 pages each) and a final research project (~10 pages). This course fulfills the second writing requirement.

Anthropology

ANTH 250: Health of Black Folks (3)

Prof. Wende Marshall

Tuesdays-Thursdays 3:30-4:20

Minor 125

This is a course in medical anthropology which will analyze the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. Co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D-(Department of Family Medicine, UVA Health Systems), an anthropologist/physician, and Wende Marshall-a medical anthropologist, the course will offer both political economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and social health and disease of African-Americans. Selected topics include the black female body in the middle passage and slavery; the use of race in the human genome project; black bodies as research subjects for biomedical science, and the epidemic of cancer and HIV among African -Americans.

ANTH 324: Plantations in Africa and the Caribbean (3)

(cross-listed as AAS 305)

Prof. Hanan Sabea

Tuesdays-Thursdays 12:30-1:45

Cabell 345

This course seeks a comparative analysis of plantations in Africa and the Americas by examining them as places of work and spaces of sociality. It examines the historical linkages between Africa and the Americas in the establishment and reproduction of plantations as they relate to the colonial empires, the differentiated entrenchment of capitalism around the globe, and correspondent movement of ideas, people and things. We will examine the lives people made on plantations as documented in the practices and experiences of slaves, workers, planters, and traders, and explore the socio-economic and political implications of plantations of the localities in which they have been operating.

ANTH 357: Peoples & Cultures of the Caribbean (3)

Ms. Yadira Perez

Tuesdays-Thursdays 1100-1215

Ruffner G004C

This course examines the cultures, societies, and histories of the Caribbean, focusing primarily on the English-, Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean. Thematically, the course focuses on processes of racialization, effects of globalization, patterns of family and kinship, experiences of labor and migration; religion and resistance; and tourism.

ANTH 526: History Production and Collective Memory (3)

Prof. Hanan Sabea

Thursdays 5:00-7:30

Cabell 130

This course is an examination of the meaning and relationship between the past and present, memory and history in anthropological debates. Specifically, it seeks an analysis of the conceptual and methodological boundaries between history production and collective memory paradigms. Themes addressed will include the making of public and official history, alternative histories, the politics of memory, ownership of the past, writing and archives, and the role of narratives of the past in the drawing of boundaries between groups, along the lines of race, gender, ethnicity, nation, and religion. Course Satisfies Second Writing Requirement.

ANTH 528: Race, Progress, and the West (3)

Prof. Wende Marshall

Wednesdays 3:30-6

Cabell 338

This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, and may include "race, ?progress? and the West," "gender, race and power," and "white supremacy." The consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance. Cross listed as AAS 528. Prerequisite: ANTH 101, 301, or other introductory or middle-level class.

ANTH 529B: The Outsiders: African-American Pioneers in Anthropology (3)

Prof. Gertrude Fraser

Tuesdays-Thursdays 9:30-10:45

Cabell B029

There is a mistaken notion that African American scholars were absent both from Anthropology's intellectual development and the debates which drew on anthropological concepts and research. This course seeks to correct that perception. With an emphasis on the period between 1900 and 1960, the course will document the work and presence of African American pioneers in Anthropology and explore the politics and practices that render their work invisible to us today. The course will also try to understand how these individuals carved an intellectual space for themselves inside and outside the discipline under racist and exclusionary conditions. We will end by assessing the contributions made and lessons offered to contemporary Anthropology and Anthropologists by these hidden ancestors. Course Satisfies Second Writing Requirement.

Art

ARTH 255: African American Art (4)

Instructor: TBA

Tuesdays-Thursdays 2-3:15 plus discussion

Campbell 160

No description available.

English

ENAM 313: African American Survey (3)

Prof. Deborah McDowell

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

Cabell 320

Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. Restricted to third- and fourth-years.

ENAM 381: Black Protest Narrative (3)

Prof. Marlon Ross

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

Minor 130

No description available.

ENAM 381: Reading the Black College campus (3)

Prof. K. Ian Grandison

Tuesdays-Thursdays 3:30-4:45

Cabell 340

No description available.

ENAM 481C: Representations of Slavery(3)

Prof. Stephen Railton

Mondays-Wednesdays

BRN 312

No description available.

ENAM 581: Trauma and African-American Literature(3)

Prof. Lisa Woolfork

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

BRN 332

No description available.

ENLT 247M Black Women Writers(3)

Prof. Lisa Woolfork

Tuesdays-Thursdays 9:30-10:45

Cabell 334

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French language and Literature

FREN 411: Francophone Literatures of Africa (3)

Prof. Kandioura Dramé

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

Wilson 141B

Survey of 20th century Francophone literature of Africa. Colonial literature and Assimilation; Negritude, Nationalism and Identity; Postcolonial literature; Feminism; Literature and Censorship; Language and Literature; Theatre and ritual performance; and Oral literature as a major intertext will all be examined through novels, poems, and plays by contemporary African writers in French. Authors will include Senghor, B. Diop, C. Beyala, M. Beti, A. Laabi, Djebar, Mimouni, Utamsi, Werewere Liking, Rabemanjara, and Ken Bugul. Weekly response papers, brief mid-semester oral presentations and bibliographies of the selected research subjects and a research paper (12-15 pages/ 570; 20-25 pages/870) are required.

FREN 443: Africa in Cinema (3)

Prof. Kandioura Dramé

Tuesdays-Thursdays 2-3:15

Randall 212

This course is a study of the representation of Africa in American, Western European and African films. It deals with the representations of African cultures by filmmakers from different cultural backgrounds and studies the ways in which their perspectives on Africa are often informed by their own social and ideological positions as well as the demands of exoticism. It also examines the constructions of the African as the other and the kinds of responses such constructions have elicited from Africa?s filmmakers. These filmic inventions are analyzed through a selection of French, British, American, and African films by such directors as John Huston, S. Pollack, J-J Annaud, M. Radford, Ngangura Mweze, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Souleymane Cisse, Gaston Kabore, Amadou Seck, Dani Kouyate, Brian Tilley, Jean-Marie Teno on a variety of subjects relative to the image of Africa in cinema. The final grade will be based on one mid-semester paper (select a film by an African filmmaker and provide a sequential reconstruction of the story based on the methods of P. S. Vieyra and of F. Boughedir ), a final paper (7-10 pages), an oral presentation and contributions to discussions. Each oral presentation should contribute to the mid-semester paper and to the final research paper. The final paper should be analytical, well documented and written in clear, grammatical French using correct film terminology supplied with this description.

FRTR 329: Contemporary Caribbean Culture (3)

Prof. A. James Arnold

Mondays-Wednesdays 3:30-4:45

An upper-division course in Caribbean culture studied through literary texts published in English, French, and Spanish. All texts will be read in English. No knowledge of French or Spanish is required, although it will be advantageous to have a foreign language. Students who have done well in this course in the past have had a solid introduction to the Caribbean either in Anthropology, Afro-American studies, or History. The introduction to Comparative Literature (CPLT 201, 202) can also be helpful.
Interpretation of cultural materials will stress the process of creolization in the region. Differences between Caribbean and US definitions of ethnicity will be stressed, as will attitudes toward gender roles. Authors who have been read in recent offerings of this course include Alexis, Carpentier, Césaire, Danticat, Depestre, Naipaul, Rhys, Santiago, and Walcott.
This course satisfies the Non-Western Studies requirement in the College. Course requirements: Midterm exam and substantial term paper.

History

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

Prof. Joseph C. Miller

Tuesdays-Thursdays 9:30-10:45 plus discussions

MCL 1004

From the mists of the once-dark continent's unwritten past Early African History draws out Africans' distinctive achievements in culture, politics, and economic strategies from the dawn of history through the eighteenth century. The course necessarily starts very broadly and then moves into greater detail from the millennium before the Present Era (c. 1000 bce) through the peak of Atlantic slaving in the last 1700s. 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 ambition in a continent increasingly trapped in exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans and Americans, until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800.
HIAF 201 is a lower-division introductory survey. The instructor presents the major themes of the early history of the continent in lectures twice each week. Students meet additionally in discussion sections for reviews of readings, map quizzes, and preparation for written assignments. Requirements include weekly short map quizzes, a mid-term examination (only the better of two tries counts), 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/non-modern" distribution requirement for the major in History, and qualifies for the College "non-western perspectives" area requirement. As it also meets the College "historical perspectives" requirement, we will consistently focus on what makes the vision of Africa's past presented in the course truly historical--not an uncomplicated question for Africa.
Readings revolve around weekly assignments in a new text (Gilbert and Reynolds, Africa in World History) with supplementary references to maps in Shillington, History of Africa, and Newman, Peopling of Africa. Selected chapters in other books 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 pages assigned runs at approximately 1200.
HIAF 201 presumes no prior knowledge of Africa or experience with the study of history. Since the subject is so new to nearly everyone in the course, consistent application and preparation are expected, particularly early in the term. Students in all four of their undergraduate years and in all colleges of the University complete the course with success. It is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to discover a once-neglected story of Africa and its place in world history and to examine erroneous assumptions about Africa that modern Americans -- students in HIAF 201 included -- do not know they make.

HIAF 302: History of Southern Africa (3)

Prof. John Mason

Tuesdays-Thursdays 9:30-10:45

Cabell 323

HIAF 302 is a lecture and discussion course on the history of southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is on South Africa . HIAF 302 begins with a look at the pre-colonial 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, 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, churches, political parties, and liberation movements. Particularly in South Africa, African nationalism was influenced by non-racialism, uniting blacks and progressive whites in the ultimately successful struggle against apartheid.

HIAF 402: Race and Popular Culture in South Africa and the United States (4)

Prof. John Mason

Tuesdays–Thursdays 2–3:15 (4 credits)

Cabell 332

HIAF 402 is a colloquium (or 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)

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.

HIUS 323: The Rise and Fall of the Slave South (3)
(cross-listed as AAS 323)

Prof. Edward L. Ayers

Mondays–Wednesdays 11-1150 plus discussion

Minor 125

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.
Requirements include substantial research in primary documents in Alderman Library. Research topics are broad and require students willing to tackle open-ended assignments. Readings will be diverse, including original documents, materials on the Web, fiction, and secondary accounts. Energetic participation in a weekly discussion section is a central part of the course.

HIUS 328: History of Virginia 1865

Prof. Crandall Shifflett

Tuesdays-Thursdays 12:30-1:45

Maury 115

This course covers the social, political, and economic development of Virginia up to 1865. The course examines in detail seven key subjects in Virginia 's colonial and antebellum history:

• Encounters and Exchanges Between Virginia's Indians and European settlers
• Regional Differences in Settlement, Politics, and Society
• Slavery's emergence and development
• Origins and Legacies of the American Revolution
• Thomas Jefferson and American Society and Politics
• 19th-century Slavery and Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Secession and Civil War in Virginia

This course is intended to provide students with detailed and complex analysis of the major events, themes, and people in Virginia 's history to 1865. We will explore the largest issues of the period not only through political leaders but also through the lives of ordinary Virginians. Primary and secondary readings and 3-4 films cover the key subjects we will focus on. The course requirements include two 5-7 page papers, a midterm and a final exam. Participation in class discussions is expected. Likely readings include, Kupperman, Indians and English, Berlin , Many Thousands Gone, Issac, The Transformation of Virginia, Ellis, American Sphinx, Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, and selected online texts and documents.

HIUS 347: American Labor (3)

Prof. Claudrena Harold

Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays 12-12:50

Cabell B030

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 present. 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, the Communist Party, among other groups. A major issue to be explored in our discussions of working-class movements 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? leisure activities, customs and thoughts, and religious beliefs.
Possible texts for the course include Nelson Lichtenstein, Susan Strasser, and Roy Rosenzweig's Who Built America ? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, 1877 to the Present , Linda Cohen's Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Michael Honey's Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers, Thomas Sugrue's The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Chana Kai Lee's For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed,Or Not Getting By in America. Students' grades will be based on class attendance and three exams.

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

Prof. Julian Bond

Tuesdays-Thursdays 1-1:50 plus discussion

Maury 209

This lecture course will examine the history, philosophies, tactics, events, and personalities of the Southern movement for civil rights from 1900 to the middle 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-led, interracial mass movement which effectively ended legal segregation by the mid-60s. Lectures will outline the movement's three over-lapping and occasionally complimentary 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 and the right to vote, and attacking separate and unequal schools. The last phase, lasting a decade from '54 through '65, was a decade of protests - boycotts, sit-ins, and mass demonstrations - as well as grass-roots organizing campaigns that laid 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 and followers from a protest community rooted in black America and created in response to white supremacy, the movement succeeded in eliminating legal segregation. The movement's well-known and lesser-known proponents and their strategies will be examined.
Grades will be determined from a final examination, student participation in sections, and two five- to seven-page papers.

HIUS 401: Southern Progressivism: Government, Economy, Gender, and Race, 1890-1920 (4)

Prof. George Gilliam

Tuesdays 6-8:30

Wilson 141A

Progressivism has been called the "formative birthtime of basic institutions, social relations, and political divisions of United States society as it evolved towards and beyond the mid-twentieth century." Though the period is best-remembered as the time when the public regulation of big business started, the seeds of today's civil rights, environmental protection, and public health and occupational safety movements also were planted during the progressive era.
Southern Progressivism has been complicated by its intersection with virulent racism. State constitutional conventions held in the South between 1890 and 1910 to create the framework for progressive regulation of business at the same time took steps effectively to disfranchise African-Americans and poor whites. C. Vann Woodward concluded that "Southern progressivism generally was progressivism for white men only, and after the poll tax took its toll not all the white men were included."
Scholars have not fully explored the aftermaths of those state constitutional conventions in the South, however, and have left to others to explore whether progressive administrative institutions regulated or promoted business, and to consider the role such regulators played in the implementation of Jim Crow laws. The enforcement of Jim Crow laws and the use of black convict labor in the South provided an impetus for Americans to form the NAACP during this period. Rapid industrialization and urbanization pushed women to organize for protective legislation and for reforms in public health and education. This seminar will provide students the opportunity to explore the intersections of progressive reformers, regulators, the business communities, and the forces of racial segregation. Students interested in turn-of-the-century race regulation, the early women's movements, as well as those who are interested in the relationship between the variegated business communities and progressive regulators should be rewarded. The common readings and seminar discussions also will expose students to stark divisions within the business communities as well as to the nascent women's movement and to issues of race and class that seem particularly pertinent to the changing social landscape of the period.
The course will include five weeks of required readings designed to provide a common understanding of the period and a range of different historical experiences and questions relating to Progressivism. The average weekly reading load will be 120 pages and will include selections from traditional works such as Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform, from revisionist works such as Gabriel Kolko's The Triumph of Conservatism, as well as more recent scholarship including Edward L. Ayers' The Promise of the New South and Noralee Frankel, Nancy S. Dye, eds., Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. By the sixth week of the course students will submit their paper topics in the form of a two-page proposal that outlines their preliminary research plan. During the next several weeks students will meet individually with the instructor. The entire class will also meet several times during the middle of the course so that students can discuss their research progress, learn about each other's work, and help their peers with any research obstacles they may encounter. The primary goal of the seminar is to assist students in learning how to conduct their own research and will culminate in a paper 25-30 pages in length, based on original research in primary sources. That paper is intended to fulfill the second writing requirement.

HIUS 401: African-American Protest in Twentieth-Century America (4)

Prof. Claudrena Harold

Tuesdays 3:30-6

Randall 212

This seminar examines African Americans' protracted struggle against political disfranchisement, social injustice, lynching and white terrorism, racially discriminatory employment structures, and unfair housing policies sanctioned by the federal government. Students will explore not only the diversity and breadth of black oppositional activity, but also the importance of dissent in the making of American democratic traditions. Some of the organizations and activists to be examined in this course include W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Malcolm X and the Organization of African American Unity, Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective, Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party, and Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. A central issue to be explored in our examination of these and lesser known activists will be their efforts to deal with the economic consequences of white supremacy and racial capitalism. How black nationalists, socialists, and communists have differed in their ideas about the best way for working-class blacks to improve their material condition will be a question examined closely. Significant attention will also be given to other important issues and debates, including the international dimensions of the black freedom struggle, the usefulness of armed self-defense as a weapon in the fight against racial justice, and the problem of sexism within the black liberation movement.
Possible texts for the course include Charles Payne and Adam Green's Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950, Tony Martin's Race First: The Organization and Ideological Struggles of Marcus Garvey, Penny M. Von Eschen's Race Against Empire, Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, Chana Kai Lee's For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, William Sales, From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Lance Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams, Negroes With Guns, and Charles Jones' The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Students' grades will be based on class attendance and participation, response papers, and a research paper.

HIUS 401: Slavery in the Making of the Antebellum South (4)

Prof. Calvin Schermerhorn

Thursdays 1-3:30

Cabell 426

This seminar will examine the institution of slavery as a way to chart social developments in the fifty years before the American Civil War. Beginning with the argument that slavery underpinned and permeated all areas of antebellum society, we will investigate how men and women of European and African descent interacted with one another in the context of social networks and communities, real or imagined. The developments we will cover include westward expansion and what it meant for family networks, free and enslaved, the rise of evangelicals, anti-abolitionist and anti-black violence, slave markets and slave labor, racial identities in a slave society, and the idea or ideology of emerging southern sectional identity. The seminar will conclude with a re-evaluation of the opening argument, which will incorporate the results of students? research.
The course will include several weeks of readings, which will introduce major themes in nineteenth century southern history. Selections include: Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavery; Joan Cashin, A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier; David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War; Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market; Donald Matthews, Religion in the Old South; and Joshua Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861. Discussions of the readings focus on historical issues and also the authors' use of evidence. They are designed to encourage members of the seminar to think about the possibilities for using primary sources as the bases for historical arguments.
During the balance of the seminar, students will conceptualize, research, and write a 25 page term paper, which will be the primary requirement of the course. Other requirements include two 3 page papers, an oral presentation of research, and a peer review session for drafts late in the semester.

Politics

PLAP 450: Voting Rights and Representation

Prof. David Klein

Mondays-Wednesdays 3:30-4:45

Cabell 130

No description available.

PLCP 581: The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

Prof. Andrew Lawrence

Thursdays 1-3:30

Cabell 431

No description available.

Religious Studies

RELA 276: African Religion in the Americas (3)

Prof. Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Mondays-Wednesdays 12-12:50 plus discussion

GIL 141

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, 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.

RELA 582: Ritual in African Religion

Prof. Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tuesdays 3:30-6

Cabell 234

RELC 306: The Ethics of Black Power(3)

(cross-listed as AAS 306)

Prof. Corey D.B. Walker

Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:15

Cabell 330

In his now classic text Blood in My Eye, George Jackson writes, “All revolution should be love inspired.” This lecture course will plumb the depths of Jackson’s remark by critically interrogating the ethical dimensions of the Black Power concept and the cultural, ideological, and political interventions influenced by this conceptual revolution. We will explore the ethics of Black Power in relation to the revolutionary exploits of artists, activists, and intellectuals in their tremendous efforts to challenge and transform the capitalist, racist, and sexist hegemony of the United States and the Western world in the second half of the twentieth century. To this end, we will revisit the work of a number of thinkers, movements, and cultural and political formations, including Albert Cleage, Angela Davis, Vicki Garvin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Larry Neal, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, February 1st Movement, SOBU/YOBU, African Liberation Support Committee, Black Arts Movement, Malcolm X Liberation University, Institute of the Black World, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. We will also assess the ethical parameters of the various ideological tendencies that influenced the conceptual formulation and political articulation of Black Power including Black Nationalism, Feminism, Liberalism, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and Pan-Africanism.

RELC 345: Kingdom of God in America (3)

Prof. Charles Marsh

Tuesdays-Thursdays 3:30-4:45The course examines the influence of theological ideas on social movements in twentieth century America and asks such questions as: How do religious commitments shape the patterns of everyday living, including economic, political, and sexual organization, as well as racial perception? What role do nineteenth century European and American Protestant theologies play in shaping the American search for "beloved community"? How does social existence influence conceptions of God and religious community? Our main historical focus will be the Civil Rights Movement in the South, but we will also look at counter-cultural movements of the late 1960's, as well as the intentional community movement, the faith-based community-development movement and recent organizing community initiatives.

Psychology

PSYC 404: Stereotyping (3)

Prof. Stacey Sinclair

T 2-4:30

Gilmer 225

Description of course contents: African Americans are lazy. Older adults are senile. Women are dependent. Stereotypes such as these influence each of our lives every day. We may see images in the media that correspond to these stereotypes, some one may use stereotypes to judge us, or we may use stereotypes to judge others. Where do these stereotypes come from? How do they affect those who are subject to them? Why do people engage in stereotyping? The goal of this course is to familiarize you with theories and evidence pertinent to understanding the processes that underlie stereotyping and how stereotypes affect the way we view each other, and ourselves.
Format: Discussions, presentations, and minimal lectures
No. and type of exams: no exams
Papers or projects: 3-4 (5 page) papers and one oral presentation
Prerequisites: PSYC 306 Enrollment Restrictions: PSYC majors; exceptions with instructors' permission.
If course is full through ISIS: A waiting list will be maintained through the psychology website. Do not contact the professor.

PSYC 405: Oppression and Empowerment (3)

Prof. Melvin Wilson

M 7-9:30 p.m.

Gilmer 225

Course description unavailable.

PSYC 487: The Minority Family (3)

Prof. Melvin Wilson

M 9-11:30

Gilmer 240

Course description unavailable. Prerequisites: PSYC 306.

Sociology

SOC 341: Race and Ethnicity (3)

Prof. Milton Vickerman

Mondays-Wednesdays 2-3:15

Cabell 325

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 410: African American Communities (3)

Prof. M. Rick Turner

Tuesdays-Thursdays 3:30-4:45

Cabell 320

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a clear more comprehensive understanding of the history, struggle 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 their cultural history. 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 discussions, lectures, videos, readings and class presentation as well as written assignments, this course will provide new insights and perspectives into the dynamic of the African-American community.

SOC 464: Urban Sociology (3)

Prof. Ekaterina Makarova

Tuesdays-Thursdays 2-3:15

Cabell 323

The course explores changing urban life in different cultural, social and historical settings. It examines both classic and contemporary debates within urban sociology and relates them to the wider concerns of social theory. Among the topics to be discussed are theories of urban development and decline, social segregation and urban inequality, cultural meanings of the city, problems of urban policy and planning.

SOC 487: Immigration (3)

Prof. Milton Vickerman

Mondays-Wednesdays 4-5:15

Cabell 325

A merge glance at any newspaper today will show that immigration is a "hot button" issue. Increasingly, one sees people of influence calling for restrictions on the entrance of illegal immigrants, restrictions on benefits to legal immigrants, and even the curtailment of legal immigration. While these sentiments reflect the social and political climate of the times, they are not new. Over a century ago, Americans expressed very similar sentiments-only, then, they were directed against Eastern Europeans, instead of Blacks, Hispanics and Orientals. Thus, this course seeks to understand immigration in America by examining the racial and historical underpinnings on which it has been built. We will show that some basic sentiments have expressed themselves in several ways in different historical periods. Along the way we will also examine relevant data showing the impact which immigration has had on American society.