非洲研究

你会学到什么

1. An understanding and appreciation of the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of 非洲研究. 
2. How to demonstrate your understanding of the major issues, 问题, and debates surrounding theory and research through writing and discussion.
3. Race’s central role and its intersectional relationship to other socially constructed ideas, 比如性别, class, 以及性取向, in the histories and lived experience of people of African descent.
4. How to employ acceptable methods of conducting research.
5. How to evaluate and analyze existing scholarship on the subject.   

B(L)ack to Nature: Poetry and Theory
非洲120 pz

This course centers Blackness, nature, and 性别 in 20thC African American poetry. Through the study of poets Lucille Clifton, Ntozake Shange, 尼基乔凡尼, 索尼娅·桑切斯, 6月乔丹, 还有克劳迪娅·兰金, students explore aesthetic strategies of and practice writing free verse, 装饰图案, 三行俳句诗, choreopoem, 和蓝色. Coupled with readings in Black feminist geographies, 地球的历史, 还有生态学研究, students engage with critical 问题 of representation, 空间, and embodiment in 20th century African American poetry.   

奥克塔维亚E. Butler: Wild Seed to Earth Seed
非洲110英里

奥克塔维亚E. Butler invites readers to consider critical 问题 about ecologies, 社区, 层次结构, 爱, 性, 比赛, 性别, 殖民, 奴隶制, 首页, 位移, 移民, 监禁, 自力更生, 它们的合作, 觉得这部, 举几个例子. Butler raises 问题 about the power of narrative and the parameters of Black feminist and African diaspora literatures as she innovates sci-fi genres, often blending the African diaspora historical with the Afrofuturistic. 

Wokeness: African American Social Theory
Soc 109 pz

How have African Americans contributed to sociology? This course seeks to provide an overview of early 20th century and more contemporary African American contributors to the discipline such as St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Roberts, bell hooks, and Robert Staples. 此外, students will become familiar with how 比赛, 性, and class shaped these theoretical writings and expanded socio-cultural understanding of African Americans in the U.S.