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department African and African American Studies (X) |
An introduction to African American history and the role black men and women have played in the cultural, economic, and political life of the US. Topics will include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of slavery; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the struggle for freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction; and African Americans in the age of segregation and disenfranchisement.
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An examination of several vexing questions that arise when one reflects philosophically on the black experience in America. Topics include the perplexities of black identity, the moral and political significance of communal solidarity, racial justice and reparations, aesthetic judgment and cultural authenticity, the ethics of interracial intimacy, and the very idea of a distinctive African American philosophical tradition.
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Individualized study of an African language at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number.
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Individualized study of an African language at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number.
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This course is a basic introduction to the history and phenomenology of traditional religions of the African peoples. Using diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, the course will explore various forms of experiences and practices that provide a deep understanding and appreciation of the sacred meaning of African existence: myth, ritual arts, and symbols selected from West, East, Central, and Southern Africa.
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Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Sejour, Lydia Maria Child, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) "Post-bellum, pre-Harlem": Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. We examine diverse genres-from slave narratives, novels and poems to plays, speeches and song lyrics.
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Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Looks at how subject people imagine themselves. Reading Walcott, Rhys, Soyinka and Fanon, among others.
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Individualized study of Bamanakan at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Bamanakan at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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This course is an introduction to hip-hop as a social movement and art form. Class begins with a history of hip-hop's four elements: DJing, MCing, break dancing, and graffiti art. We then turn to the study of music and performance more broadly, as well as hip-hop-related topics in popular culture, such as racial authenticity, sex and gender politics, word play and explicit language, and the rise of global hip-hop.
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This course explores the cultural richness of African American humor through analyses of stand-up, drama, the visual arts and literature from the 19th century onward. Artists include but are not limited to Richard Pryor (and many other important figures in black comedy), the painter Robert Colescott, the artists Kara Walker, writer William Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, George Schuyler, and Ishmael Reed.
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Critically examines the family of African American social philosophies generally classified under the broad rubric "black nationalism." Topics to be explored include the meaning of black collective self-determination; the relationship between black identity and black solidarity; and the significance of Africa for black nationalist ideals. Authors to be discussed include Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, and some contemporary representatives of the tradition.
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The theme of African renewal was first elaborated in the black diaspora where it had an inspirational value for movements of emancipation among black people in America. It later functioned as a formative influence on African nationalism and has today assumed a new significance with the concept of "African Renaissance". Our examination of black utopias will focus on the force fields of ideas and internal tensions that have marked their development since the 18th century.
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Focus is on the development of "serious" dramas and problem films in their relationship to the traditions of tragedy and melodrama. Readings from Aeschylus to Adrienne Kennedy accompanied by visits of performances and film screenings. Fresh research in Harvard Theatre Collection encouraged.
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Individualized study of Cape Verdean Creole at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Cape Verdean Creole at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Chichewa at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Chichewa at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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A critical introduction to the novels and essays of Chinua Achebe and assessment of his heritage.
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This course is a historical survey of the centuries-old Christian traditions in Africa. It begins with an outline of the trajectory of Christianity's origins and presence in Africa from its beginning in ancient Mediterranean lands through the early period of European missionaries to the contemporary period. The course provides the ethnography of the old mission churches, indigenous independent African churches, and contemporary evangelical and Pentecostal Charismatic movements. The course explores the role of Christianity in relation to historical, cultural, social, and material realities of the African continent. It examines a broad range of topical issues related to conversion, missionization, and the development and growth of Christian agencies in Africa in relation to the construction of social, theological, and religious identities, as well as Christianity's response to cultural pluralism, nationhood, citizenship, and civil society.
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This course maps health problems that differentially affect people of African descent. Students are introduced to theoretical approaches in the history of medicine, medical anthropology, and public health. The second half of the course will be spent conducting fieldwork in Boston-area African communities.
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Individualized study of Dinka at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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