AFRO 298

Fall 2026 All Classes

All Classes

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 fall 2026
Status CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
1
49001
Lecture-Discussion
GP
3:30PM -4:50PM
TR
2200 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg
Peoples, G
Availability:
Open
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/26-12/09/26
Section Title:
Black Popular Culture
Section Info:
Black Popular Culture will survey theories on Black popular culture, Black gender, and Black sexuality in relation to select literature and audio-visual materials that reflect popular culture. Through a consideration of how Black feminism operates within these relationships, we will pay close attention to how Blackness is prescribed, reinforced, and transgressed and how race, class, and sexuality complicate it in popular culture and everyday life. Your final project will be an audio essay that demonstrates your ability to apply critical concepts (such as feminism, intersectionality, and race) to a topic of your choice related to Black gender, Black sexuality, and Black popular culture in a palatable way. I encourage you to generate new ideas using the materials provided in class and those you research outside of class. You will leave this class with a greater understanding of how Black gender and sexuality are instrumentalized in popular culture, the skills to compose a thesis statement, to critically and creatively respond to matters that come to the forefront of our attention, and to develop a concise, rigorous audio argument.
1
68386
Lecture-Discussion
MP
12:30PM -1:50PM
MW
G46 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling
Phillips, M
Availability:
Open
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/26-12/09/26
Section Title:
Black Women's Sports
Section Info:
“The WNBA don’t pay my bills,” Angel Reese remarked on Instagram Live in 2024. Her statement drew national attention to the persistent pay gap between women’s and men’s professional sports. That gap is not simply about salary. It reflects long histories of racial and gender inequality that shape whose bodies are valued, protected, and compensated in American sport. This course examines Black women’s sports history to understand how race, gender, and power structure athletic opportunity, visibility, and labor. To fully understand Black women’s experiences, we begin by situating them within the broader history of Black participation in sports, including the public attention and political meaning attached to Black men athletes. We then center Black women athletes and ask: How have they navigated racism, sexism, media scrutiny, and economic inequality? How have they managed performance, family life, activism, and mental health under pressure? A central theme of the course is the politics of care, the idea that protection, rest, compensation, and wellness are shaped by power. We will examine how sports institutions profit from athletes’ performance while often failing to fully protect or support them. At the same time, we will explore how Black women athletes build practices of care that are mental, physical, and communal, not only to survive and resist, but to create conditions for thriving within unequal systems. Grounded in Black feminist and Black Power traditions, this course uses sports history as a lens to analyze race, gender, labor, and social change in modern United States history.
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