AFRO 298

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
65531	Lecture-Discussion	AL1	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	1018 Foreign Languages Building	Williams, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Title: Becoming Martin & Malcom Section Info: Course Title: “Becoming Martin & Malcolm” - Course Description: Few Black leaders are held in as high esteem as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Yet public media habitually represents these ministers as rivals, even adversaries—one the nonviolent hero of the Civil Rights Era, the other a violent revolutionary. While their rhetoric and protest strategies differed, there were many experiences, values, and priorities that they shared. This course re-examines the lives and legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (that is, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz). Students will analyze their speeches, essays, biographical writing, interviews, and film representations to explore the origins of their religious and political philosophies, and to consider how these perspectives clashed or converged. By the end of this course, students will have a more nuanced understanding of the sociopolitical ideologies that underpinned X and King’s struggles for freedom, as well as how their memory is deployed in current day movements for social change. Course meets with REL 199
57488	Lecture-Discussion	DM	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	313 Davenport Hall	McCarthy, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Info: AFRO 298 - Race, Gender, Music Topic: This class explores the political connections between race, gender, and music. The course considers questions of representation, the practice and politics of listening, the political and economic modes of production, and racial and gender formations. In order to explore these topics, this version of the course is broken into three thematic sections: listening and hearing; race, the nation, and citizenship; and locating gender and sexuality. The course is taught intersectionally, meaning we will deal with issues of race, gender, sexuality, labor, and national identity. Meets with LLS 296, GWS 295, AAS 299 and MUS 199
48934	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	150 English Building	Carroll, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Topics in Literature & Culture Section Info: AFRO 298 - Race and Visual Culture since 1980 How do we visualize race in American culture? Why is race so strongly associated with the visual? How is race produced, explored, and circulated through the visual? This course will study how race is “seen” in American literature and culture from 1980 to the present day. We will consider concepts such as racial classification, stereotype, representation, fetish, abstraction, and social and political transformation. You will learn how to read literature, visual art, and films using both critical race and ethnic studies and visual culture studies frameworks. Expect to study texts by authors, artists, and filmmakers such as Toni Morrison, Young Jean Lee, Lara Mimosa Montez, Jeffrey Gibson, and Jordan Peele, among others. Meets with ENGL 261