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A seminar/workshop examining African American music of the African Diaspora performances, practices, and singing traditions. Using the Research to Performance Method (RPM), this will examine and research various musical traditions through African American history from slavery to current day musical genres and styles. This course will also focus on performance styles of notable Black singers. Students will research, create and prepare performance reflective of the various musical genres and styles examined. Interdisciplinary readings are included in the course of study and will be provided as handouts. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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A study of Aristotle's Poetics in relation to Dubois' four principles of black theatre and Audre Lorde's essay "The Master¿s Tools." What makes black theatre "black"? We will analyze plays from the 20th Century African-American canon as sites of aesthetic resistance to "normative" American Theatre; and write our own one-act plays based upon our discoveries. Prerequisite: Course is restricted to students who have taken any Africana Studies RPM Playwriting course, Theatre Arts Introduction to Playwriting, Literary Arts Intermediate or Advanced playwriting courses, or has playwriting experience. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will employ a variety of narrative forms -- oral folktales, WPA narratives, slave narratives, short stories by European and American writers -- will also investigate the multiple traditions of African American fiction. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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What is "hip hop journalism"? Is it just "new journalism" stylized with urban (s)language? Is it "advocacy journalism", written subjectively by urban young people of color for urban young people of color, compelled only to celebrate and never critique or problematize hip hop culture? This seminar will be a writing-intensive examination of "hip hop journalism". We will read a survey of books and articles for textual, cultural, and aesthetic analysis of the ways in which "hip hop journalism" changes, maintains, subverts and questions the culture industry that has grown out of and around hip hop cultural expression. Weekly writing assignments - columns, editorials, reviews, and profiles - will be expected and possibly lead to the production of a class-produced blog or publication at the end of the semester. A writing sample will be requested if the class is oversubscribed. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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The primary objective of this course is to learn about and reflect upon public art and communities - locally and nationally. This course will use selected public art and artists' ideologies as a framework for exploring culture, creativity, politics and practices. The course will focus on the ways in which these public art works and artists' responses to varied forms of internal and external operators and stimuli successfully and unsuccessfully give voice to aspects of the environment, history, culture, social justice, health, politics and the imagination. Throughout the course existing public art and arts projects will be used to illustrate and explore topics, ideas, unique issues and concerns. Guest speakers will share their experiences, knowledge and ideas. Students will focus on practical application for approaching public art projects. This course will also pay attention to arts organizations, government agencies, history, power relations, human resources as well as leadership and the political that continues to impact and influence these public modes of artistic production. Finally the course will examine dynamics that inform approaches to public art - purpose, performance, space, time, and function. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar offers a survey of post-colonial African history, while probing the challenges of writing post-colonial history. During the first section of the course, we will read several surveys of post-colonial African history and several works on post-colonial historiography. Our goal is to learn from master-narratives found in surveys and also to consider the possibility of dismantling them. The second section of the course allows the class to (cooperatively) choose subjects for reading and discussion. The third section of the course is directed toward students' major project - to produce either a research paper or two primary sources that could be included in a sourcebook that the professor is preparing for publication. Enrollment limited to 20; instructor's permission required. Students with a background in African history or contemporary African social science will be given priority. Interested students should email the professor at Nancy_Jacobs@brown.edu. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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An examination of some of the most influential work on problems of identity and being, theology and theodicy, time and history, method and evaluation, race and racism, postcoloniality and liberation in contemporary African philosophy. Readings include the work of Anthony Appiah, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Gyekye, Pauline Hountondji, D. A. Masolo, John Mbiti, Kwame Nkrumah, Léopold Senghor, Tsenay Serequeberhan, among others. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the literature, music, and art of the so-called Harlem Renaissance, within the context of broader transformations in African American and American culture and politics in the decade of the 1920s. Readings include books by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Wallace Thurman, and Claude McKay; contemporary essays, reviews and manifestoes; and recent critical studies. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Do West African writers have a role to play in the changing political landscape of their countries? An examination of the ways and means through which a select group of West African writers have dealt with issues that relate to the role of the state in the management of individual and group relations, the politics of gender, civil and military relations, and the construction of new forms of civil society. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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This advanced seminar in Africana philosophy will examine critical texts and thinkers that articulate the problems, methods, and techniques for interrogating the interrelationships between the discourse of philosophy and modern conceptions of race. The seminar will move to consider contemporary engagements in this area by drawing on readings and thinkers from analytical, continental, feminist, marxist, and pragmatist philosophical traditions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This advanced seminar in Africana philosophy will explore the contours of insurgent forms of Africana social and political philosophy. With a temporal focus on the twentieth century, we will concern ourselves with explicating the dominant themes, theoretical orentations, and methodological understandings that in/form constructions and articulations of the varities of Africana feminism/womanism, black nationalism, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Pan-Africanism, and radical democracy. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar will focus on racial categories in South Africa. We will explore dynamic categories of race from the 17th through 20th centuries. Topics include the relationship of race and class; racial violence; the transmission of culture and knowledge across racial boundaries; intimate relations over racial boundaries; segregation; and race and nation. We will give attention to critiquing the ways that historians have represented race and the ways that conceptions of the category have evolved within the discipline, but the emphasis will be on recent scholarship. Students will be expected to participate actively in the seminar, to write one book review, and one research paper. Enrollment limited to 20. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Who, or rather, what is God to the oppressed? This advanced seminar in Africana philosophy will examine the various theories, methods, and arguments that engage perennial questions that arise when contemplating God. The seminar will focus on questions of philosophical method and theological exposition while also being critically attuned to modes of social and cultural analysis and critique, particularly those perspectives inspired by forms of critical theory, feminist theory, and Marxist theory. Limited enrollment. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar will examine some of the significant issues, themes, and arguments advanced in contemporary African philosophy. Specifically, the seminar will focus on the technical and theoretical debates regarding the status of African philosophy, the analysis of specific philosophical concepts and frameworks advanced within the field, and the relation of African philosophy and to questions of culture, politics, and modernity. Texts by Appiah, Eze, Gbadegesin, Gyeke, Hountondji, Masolo, Mbembe, Mbiti, Mudimbe, Oruka, Serequeberhan, Wiredu and others will be considered. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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In this course we will analyze how contemporary, emerging and marginally-read African writers contest the traditional and widely-held interpretations, understanding and assumptions of African literature. We will read and think about African literature in the contemporary post-colonial and post apartheid moment in Africa. Authors discussed include Dambudzo Marechera, Zoe Wicomb and Binyavanga Wainaina, among others. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Restrictions: May not be enrolled as the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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In contrast to Pragmatist and European-oriented views of American philosophy, this course will emphasize the colonial dimensions and features of American philosophy that emerged out of the colonial soil of early America. Out of this soil sprang extended debates between Native Americans, Euro-Americans and African Americans over the legitimacy of the hegemony that Euro-Americans were establishing over increasing portions of North America. This course will view American philosophy as having within it two opposing traditions that have been engaged in ongoing angry dialogues: the dominant or Prosperean tradition of Euro-Americans and the subjugated or Caliban tradition of Native Americans and African Americans. In this course, our focus will be on the philosophical exchanges between Euro-Americans and African Americans. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar will be devoted to the study of the environment and power in the history of sub-Saharan Africa. The goals for this class are that you learn more about the history of Africa, about the ways that relations with the environment shaped its human history, about the construction of environmental knowledge and its repercussions, and about historical research. This course also has an applied dimension. Eight African environmental professionals visiting Brown through the Watson Scholars of the Environment (WISE) program will also participate in the class. In their final course project, students will conduct research of use to the WISE fellows on historical cases related to their training at Brown. (For more information see http://www.watsoninstitute.org/ge/watson_scholars/). This course qualifies as a capstone seminar in the history department. Limited to 20 students. Instructors permission required. Interested students should email the instructor at Nancy_Jacobs@brown.edu with a description of their interests and background. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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This seminar explores the intertwined histories of gender and power in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times to the present. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Utilizes Rites and Reason Theater's research-to- performance method of developing new play scripts to examine the development and relationship of the colonial Euro-American art form, theatre, to its existence within the Indigenous intertribal (Native American Indian) communities in America. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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From the publication of The Souls of Black Folk in 1903 until his death in Ghana sixty years later, W. E. B. Du Bois remained one of America's most penetrating analysts of what he called "the color line." Students read and discuss a selection of Du Bois's writings from his career as journalist, essayist, sociologist, historian, poet, political leader, and pioneering Pan-Africanist. Prerequisite: one course in AC, AF or US History. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students MUST register for HIST 1090 S01 (CRN 15137). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Return to Previous New Search
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Thirty plays, written by Afro-American playwrights and presented on the American stage between 1858 and the 1990s, are examined as cultural and historical documents of Afro-American realities. Supplementary readings from the humanities and social sciences provide critical framework for in-class discussions and student papers. Instructor permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Africana Studies Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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