REL 199

Spring 2023

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Jan 17-May 3
Undergraduate Open Seminar
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Undergraduate Open Seminar.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
74758
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 & Malcolm
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 AFRO 298
74751
Lecture-Discussion
AL2
9:30AM -10:50AM
TR
134 Armory
McKinnis, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/17/23-05/03/23
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Slavery & Religion in Blk Exp
Section Info:
Course Summary: The enslavement of kidnapped Africans in North America was not simply a social, political, or economic problem. Rather, the institution of chattel slavery was inextricably tied to the religious and cosmological imagination of the colonial settler. One might say “empireligion.” This course scrutinizes theological and religious claims and practices of slaveholding North America, particularly in relation to the question of the materiality of enslavement. In a constructive move, participants will examine the undercurrent – or fugitive – imagination of enslaved Africans in their quest to assert and perform a sort of religion otherwise. In so doing, course attendees will pay close attention the organization of the “invisible institution” – that clandestine religious world of enslaved radicals – including theological meditations that offered a retort to, and rejection of, slaveholding empireligion. We will consider a variety of sources in the archive, including spirituals, narratives, and testimony, as a way of listening to the voices in the aftermath. Note: Course meets with Religion (AFRO) 224 and (CWL) 226
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