AFRO 298

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Spec Topics African-Am Studies

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Credit: 3 hours.

Seminar on selected topics with particular emphasis on current research trends.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: AFRO 100 or AFRO 101, or consent of instructor.

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AFRO 298 class schedule data for spring 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55884	Lecture-Discussion	1	4:00PM -6:50PM	W	Davenport Hall	McClure, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Section Info: AFRO 298 Black Culture, Community and Control This course examines postwar African American cultural history with attention to the ways art, politics and community activism shaped the ideal of "black community" that took shape in various locales throughout the urban north. In many cities, cultural workers and cultural programs were integral to the development of black community consciousness that formed a foundation, or "cultural base," that supported sustained organizing , institution building efforts and calls for "community control" during the 1960s and 1970s. Ultimately, cultural workers and cultural programs helped to unite individuals divided by social class, age, gender, place of origin and ideological differences in local, regional and national initiatives for black community empowerment. This course explores the relationship between individual expressions of black identity, collective articulations of black community solidarity and the politics surrounding demands for greater control of the cultural, economic and political resources of black communities. Particular attention is paid to the development of the Black Arts Movement and the activities and objectives of participants in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit and New York. This course engages four (4) principal areas of inquiry: (1) the dynamic between individual black identity and articulations of black community; (2) the uses of culture for black empowerment; (3) institution building efforts and, (4) the maintenance of local, regional and national black public spheres by artists, activists and intellectuals.
	55450	Lecture-Discussion	MBH	5:00PM -7:50PM	T	Foreign Languages Building	Huntt, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Section Info: AFRO 298 Minorities and Reality TV: Fact/Fiction The course is designed to introduce students to some of the complexities of the relationships between race, culture, popular culture and mass media. It explores how aspects of reality television represent diverse ethnicities and cultures in relation to each other and to dominant American media conventions and social ideas. Reality television shows are analyzed within their socio-cultural contexts, with particular attention paid to how constructions of race, identity, and community interact with class, gender, and sexuality.