Courses

The international relations of the African countries and the development of African foreign policies. Pan-Africanism, the cold war in Africa, neutralism, regional and international agencies.

An introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post-emancipation African American history. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics.

This interactive lecture-based course offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post-emancipation African American history. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics.

Exploration of African American history from the Atlantic slave trade up to the Civil War. It is centrally concerned with the rise of and overthrow of human bondage, and how they shaped the modern world.

This course explores African American history from the Atlantic slave trade up to the Reconstruction. Era. It is centrally concerned with the rise of and overthrow of human bondage, and how these processes shaped the modern world.

This course provides a survey of 20th- and 21st century African American literature, including the tradition?s key aesthetic manifestos. Special attention will be given to how modern African American literature is periodized and why certain innovations in genre and style emerged when they did. Readings will include poetry, essays, novels, popular fiction, stage productions, and related visual texts.

This course provides a survey of 20th- and 21st century African American literature, including the tradition’s key aesthetic manifestos. Special attention will be given to how modern African American literature is periodized and why certain innovations in genre and style emerged when they did. Readings will include poetry, essays, novels, popular fiction, stage productions, and related visual texts.

A study of selected writing by and about people of African descent from the onset of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of Reconstruction. Genres may include folklore, petition, poetry, slave narrative, polemic, journalism, drama, and fiction-- addressed to white and nonwhite audiences, in the US or throughout the globe.

A study of African Americans’ engagement with national and global culture and politics from the end of Reconstruction to the present, covering such movements as Realism, Black Arts, pan-Africanism, womanism, and postmodernism. A variety of verbal and narrative genres will be considered.

Exploration of the African American community?s diverse responses to the predominant challenges it has faced (including, but not limited to, slavery); the economic and political legacies of those challenges; and American political culture more broadly. This course is an engagement with African American political thought from approximately 1830 to the present.