Courses

African aesthetics, African cosmology, and qualities of African spirituality.

Caribbean Art African, African-American, and Caribbean Art is a survey of the major art styles of Africa and the African Diaspora in the United States and the West Indies. Offered Fall.

The experience of American blacks since the end of the Civil War, including Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement. Concurrent with HIST 4040.

Survey of the African American experience from Pre-Colonial Africa to the End of the Civil War.

An examination of the work of formally trained 20th century African American painters, sculptors, and photographers in relation to broader currents in the social and cultural history of the United States.

The study of major events, personalities and influences germane to the creation of art by blacks in America, including visual slave themes, Pan-African art, “Black art” and blacks in mainstream art.

Investigation of the art of African-Americans and the historical and social contexts in which the works were produced. Major periods of concentration include slavery, post-slavery, and the 20th century.

This class will focus on the creative production, contemporary reception, and critical interpretation of African American art from the colonial period to the present—an examination that intersects inexorably with studies in American art, material culture, Modernism, and post-colonialism (among a host of other fields and disciplines.) So, while visual representations of and by African Americans provide the content for this course, the broader methodological and theoretical issues they raise are

Personal narratives by African Americans, including texts by Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Wilson, DuBois, Johnson, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin, Angelou, and Moody.

This course will survey the evolution of African American autobiography. It will analyze autobiographies within historical context and explore the variety of forms such as memoir, diaries and others used by the authors.