| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Black Studies (X) |
Historical and current social conditions of black people in the united states. Topics include slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, and urban black migration, with particular consideration given to the black church and the black family as bearers and creators of Afro-American culture.
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Lecture is concurrent with BL ST 1, including weekly honors seminar with instructor. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings facilitated by the instructor. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
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Discussions designed to explore, identify, and understand the social and emotional pathology of racist orientations as they appear in everyday life.Focus on personal experiences with extensive student involvement and participation expected. Not restricted to majors. Limited enrollment.
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A survey of the subject matter, themes, and methods of African Studies. While briefly surveying the prehistory and early states of Africa, the course focuses on the culture and society of the colonial and independence eras.
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Examines historical and contemporary manifestations of racism and anti-racism, as well as theoretical approaches to understand the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of race.
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An interdisciplinary analysis of the effect of Africa on Western Civilization, specifically the politics, economics, and cultures of Europe,the Caribbean, and North America.
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History of the modern civil rights movements, its organization and ideology from its origins in the post reconstruction era, to its triumphs with the end of legal racial segregation, and its recognition in the civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
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A survey of the culture and society of th Caribbean. After surveying Amerindian communities and examining the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, focus will be on slavery, emancipation, African and Creole cultures,and the issues accompanying an independent nationhood status.
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Examines, from an interdisciplinary perspective, black communities in Latin America. Topics include african slavery in the Spanish/Portuguese colonies, maroon societies, and surviving black settlements from the post-slavery period to the present.
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A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the Afro-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.
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Examines manifestations of psychological characteristics of people of African decent, cultural and behavioral norms, and ways that race, class, gender and sexuality affect their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America are explored.
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Provides a political-historical overview of Afro-American involvement in the politics of the United States from slavery to the present.
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An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies.
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The roots and contemporary manifestations of oral traditions of Afro-American and Caribbean cultures are examined as expressed in oral narratives and non-verbal modes of communication.
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Afro-American literature from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance.
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Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in Black Studies 38A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the Black Studies 38A reading list, and supplemental writing.
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African-American literature from the 1930s to the present.
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Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in Black Studies 38B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the Black Studies 38B reading list, and supplemental writing.
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A comparative examination of the traditions of African American music, literature, dance, folklore, cinema, the visual arts, and musical theatre. No prior musical background is required, though some musicological concepts and nomenclature are employed.
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An Introduction to the history of Africa from the earliest times to the present. Course themes include: organization of production, state formation, Africa and the world economy, colonialism, resistance, power and identities in African societies, current struggles and conflicts. Prehistory to 1800CE.
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An introduction to the history of Africa from the earliest times to the present. Course themes include: organization of production, state formation, Africa and the world economy, colonialism, resistance, power and identities in African societies, current struggles and conflicts. 1800CE to the present.
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The development of Black stereotypes. Studying literature, comic books, comic strips, cartoons, music, theater, cinema, broadcasting, and television, students analyze the mythical imageries which have created stereotypes.
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A Study of urban spatial relations, housing discrimination, environmental racism, school segregation, urban renewal, and city planning from the nineteeth century to the present.
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The role of education in the racialization of opportunities and life chances in U.S. society with special emphasis on the origins, implementation, and legacy of the Supreme Court�s decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.
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A historical examination, beginning with West African heritage, of Afro-American religious leaders and organizations in the United States during slavery and until the end of the nineteenth century.
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