AAS 1020 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

12:30-1:45PM Tu/Th, Minor Hall 125

This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 101. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.

AAS 1559 - Black Feminist Theory and Praxis (3)

Instructor: Joy James

9:00-11:00AM F, Wilson 141A

This course examines contemporary black feminist theory in the United States, and the civil rights, anti-war, student and second wave feminist movements that influenced and inspired its growth during the 1960s, 70s, 80s. This class explores the ideological distinctions between state and counter-state feminism, socialist feminism, “womanism” and “black feminism, and black lesbian and transgendered feminisms. The works of black women artists and the role of activism, anti-racism, and internationalism in the formation of black feminist thought will also be examined.

Texts include: Angela Y. Davis: An Autobiography; Assata: An Autobiography; Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider; Delores Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness; K. McKittrick, Demonic Grounds.

Course requirements: Attendance and participation: 25%; group presentations: 25%; research paper and presentation: 50%

AAS 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

12:30-1:45PM Tu/Th, Gibson 242

This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’s agency in indigenous religious movements, Muslim communities and Christian congregations in Africa.

Cross-listed as RELA 3000

AAS 3500 - Race and Urbanism in Postwar American Culture (3)

Instructor: Anoop Mirpuri

5:00-6:15PM Tu/Th, New Cabell 134

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to 20th century black urban studies. We will examine a variety of literary and scholarly texts concerned with representing, shaping, and contesting the government and organization of postwar US cities. Particular attention will be paid to the relation between the economy, the black freedom movement, the production and development of space, and the formation of racial identity. We will ask, in particular, what has been the relation between the black freedom movement and contestations over the production, use, and development of urban space? How has the American city been represented and experienced in relation to key political and economic changes that have occurred since World War II? The goal will be to generate a broad theoretical and historical understanding of postwar urbanism and its relation to the African American experience. Second, we will engage with recent scholarship on race and racism so as to develop an understanding of these concepts adequate to the study of late 20th century identity formation. Course assignments will be geared toward asking students to explore, through close reading and historical analysis, the political stakes of different approaches to the study and representation of black culture. Assessment criteria will include course participation in discussion, close engagement with readings evinced in short weekly writing assignments, and a mid-term and final essay.

AAS 3559 - Social Issues and Development in Africa (3)

Instructor: Jason Hickel

9:30-10:45 Tu/Thu, Pavillion VIII 103

This course draws on insights from critical theory to examine social issues and development in Africa. As part of a broader introduction to the history and politics of the continent, it explores the general contours of European colonialism, national independence, and the position of African states in today's global economic order. Against this backdrop, the course teaches students to handle various theories of underdevelopment and draws attention to specific case studies – such as Sudan, Rwanda, and South Africa – to discuss issues related to race, class, labor, gender, trade, and HIV/AIDS.

AAS 4080 - Directed Reading and Research (3)

Students in the DMP enroll under this number for thesis writing.

AAS 4500 - Racial Geographies (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

6:30-9:00PM Th, New Cabell 134

Notwithstanding the amorphous boundaries of geography as a discipline—especially at its intersection with such discourses as environmentalism, urban planning, and landscape studies—there are several ideas that readily conjure “geography.” Geography, for instance, is a scientific inquiry; geographers are interested in the attributes of places; geographic discourse has as its central—though unspoken—commitment to catalogue the earth’s surface according to perceived opportunities and constraints for human exploitation. Here is the question of this seminar: How does “race,” as a concept of critical culture, fit into this empirical investigation and documentation of places? Do such geographical headers as “demography,” “population,” “people,” or “occupation,” enumerated along with such headers as “physical characteristics,” “climate,” “transport,” or “towns,” allow us to engage race critically? Emphasizing the case studies that draw mainly from “Virginia,” we will together attempt to develop themes and concepts to elucidate the notion of “Racial Geography.” Consider, for example, the implications of such a race-inflected exploration in urban geography. Quantitative and geometrical theories of urban distribution and location are of little use in helping us to understand the location of Washington DC. No consideration of the “rank” and “size” of adjacent urban centers or of proximity to natural and cultural advantages, such as deep water harbors, mountain passes, or potential sources of energy, can explain why the nation’s capital was sited in a swampy backwater of the Chesapeake. Indeed, Washington DC’s location is best explained by the energetic but stealthy campaign of powerful Virginia slave holders to site the capital of the young nation in territory that was firmly committed to the institution of slavery? Consider how this determined the fate of rival cities such as Quaker Philadelphia or even the definition of North and South as geographical subdivisions on the United States. We may even consider how this explains why the Chesapeake still, from time to time, fills some of the most official parts of the city with briny flood waters. Requirements of the seminar will include a midterm and final exam and a research paper of 15 pages. Students will be asked at the beginning of the semester to explain their motivations for wanting to participate in the seminar.

AAS 4570-1 - Insufficient Blackness in African American Literature and Culture (3)

Instructor: Alisha Gaines

3:30-6:00PM Tu, Wilson 215

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News penned an op-ed piece with a seemingly tongue-in-cheek question as its title: “Is Obama Guilty of Insufficient Blackness?” As Barack Obama began to dominate both political and popular discourses, questions over his racial legitimacy took hold in the cultural imagination. These debates remind us that blackness is not, and has never been, a bounded or agreed upon category, and often what is considered “real” and/or “authentic” leaves some on the margins of the community. Taking cues from these still lingering and poignant debates, this course seeks to interrogate the “facts” and “fictions” of blackness by moving those on the margins (queers, “oreos,” those that “talk white,” the upper-class, race traitors, passers, and “wiggers”) to the center. Through several different media including literary texts, film, television, music, and performance art, we will begin to think critically about authenticity, community, appropriation, performance, and belonging.

Questions to be considered in this course include: How does thinking about blackness inflect our understanding of (supposedly stable) categories of identity other than race including gender, class, and sexuality? Do we really know blackness when we see it? Hear it? How (and why) is blackness performed and for (and by) whom? In what ways is identity shaped by who can and can’t pass? How has globalization made blackness an even more accessible commodity? How has hip hop? And finally, just what does it take to be down?

AAS 4570-2 - Violence, Genocide and Africa (3)

Instructor: Cassie Hays

3:30-6:00PM Th, New Cabell 234

Via the historical and sociological study of violence in Africa, this course poses and attempts to resolve a variety of questions. First, what are the patterns and policies of colonial governance that manifest in expressions of violence? In what ways can we see modern actions as originating in the colonial era? How are race and ethnicity solidified, reinforced, or reconfigured through the lens of violence? How and why does gender, and particularly violence against women, become a meaningful way for perpetrators to articulate control or degrade their opposition? What, then, is the role of the racialized, gendered, or youthful body in postcolonial war? How can we begin to move beyond contemporary media representations and ‘read’ the politics of violence in Africa as unexceptional?

This course will focus on the colonial origins, postcolonial manifestations, and public culture depictions of violence in Africa. We will begin with a broad overview of the concepts of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism and a brief history of genocide around the world. Building from this foundation, we will spend several weeks examining case studies from the era of European colonialism in Africa by reading books and watching films on the Belgian Congo, British Kenya and French Algeria. We will then move to analyses of the contemporary examples of Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, and Sudan. Authors to be read include: Robert J.C. Young, Samantha Powers, Arjun Appadurai, Mahmood Mamdani, Frantz Fanon, Adam Hochschild, and Philip Gourevitch.

A 20-page research paper is expected at the conclusion of the semester.

AAS 4570-3 - Prosecuting Rape and Race (3)

Instructor: Joy James

12:00-2:30PM F, New Cabell 324

Although FBI crime statistics inform that the vast majority of rapes are intraracial, media sensationalism of rape, both real and alleged, often centers on interracial sexual assault cases. This seminar explores American memory concerning sexual violence and racial constructions. Beginning with the height of lynching and anti-lynching crusades led by Ida B. Wells in 1892, we examine key cases throughout the twentieth century that marked American consciousness concerning race relations and racial repression, and Americans’ conventional understandings of human sexuality and violence against women. This graduate seminar examines representations of sexual assault in trial cases/legal text ,popular culture, journalistic discourse, and scholarship. Cases studied include: Scottsboro Boys, Jack Johnson, Mike Tyson, Harlem Six, Willie Horton, Central Park Case, Ben LaGuer, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Texts include: D’Emilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters; The Scottsboro Boys; William Patterson, ed., We Charge Genocide; Ida. B. Wells, Southern Horrors.

Course requirements: Attendance and participation: 25%; group presentations: 25%; research paper and presentation: 50%.

AAS 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

11:00-12:15 Tu/Th, Maury 113

This course seeks to explore the world of African American “speculative” fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.

Cross-listed as ENAM 4500

AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

AAS 5528 - Queer Race Theory (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

6:30-9:00PM Tu, Bryan Hall 310

How have subjects identified as queer been constituted and understood in relation to racial formations and ideologies? Focusing especially on African American same-gender loving men and women and others viewed as outside of gender or sexual norms, this course investigates the emerging theories developed to address the intersection of race and sexual orientation in structures of cultural identity, psychic subjectivity, artistic production, political economy, and social history. The course is divided into four topics: 1) We begin with the queer body politic, examining political coverage of the Proposition 8 controversy as a way of seeing how different racial groups (blacks, Latinos, whites) are currently positioned in dominant discourses related to sexual orientation. 2) We move backward to examine the historical representation of minoritized sexuality through the concept of the queer token, focusing on the writings by and about three celebrated figures: James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Cherríe Moraga. 3) The next section takes up the emergence of black queer theory in concert with related minoritized sexual orientations, particularly Asian-American and Chicano/a, focusing on readings from the following volumes: E. Patrick Johnson’s Black Queer Studies, Dwight McBride and Jennifer deVere Brody’s Plum Nelly, Syliva Molloy and R. M. Irwin’s Hispanisms and Homosexualities, Phil Harper’s Private Affairs, Jose Muñoz’s Disidentifications, and David Eng’s Racial Castration. 4) Finally, we examine mass media representations (especially film and t.v.) of minoritized queerness, focusing on Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied, Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning, David Henry Hwang and David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, and Partik-Ian Polk’s Logo tv series Noah’s Arc. Requirements include several brief commentary papers, an annotated bibliography, and a 20-page term research paper.Restricted to 4th years and Graduate Students.

Cross-listed as ENCR 5559

ANTH 3559-05 - French Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Currents (3)

Instructor: Yarimar Bonilla

3:30-6:00PM T, Cocke Hall 115

This interdisciplinary co-taught course will combine historical, anthropological, and literary approaches to the study of the French Caribbean islands. We will examine important periods in the history of French territorial expansion (including colonialism, slavery, decolonization, and the transformation of empire) with an eye towards how these histories informed the cultural and intellectual world of life in the Caribbean Colonies. We will also examine how varying ideological currents and philosophical projects (such as Negritude, Antillanité, Creolité, and the Tout-Monde) have sought to navigate the complicated relationships of alterity, political community, and national belonging that have shaped the French postcolonial world. Throughout the course we will examine the French Caribbean as an important analytical site for the study of racial hierarchies, colonial histories, and postcolonial projects.

Cross-listed as FREN 4559

ANTH 4559-03 - Anthropology of Dissent (3)

Instructor: Yarimar Bonilla and Stephanie Berard

3:30-6:00PM Th, Clark Hall 101

This course will investigate various processes of opposition, resistance, and revolution. The first half of the course will survey foundational works of revolutionary theory, while the second half will examine political practice from an ethnographic perspective, with an eye towards the lived experience of political participation and the formation (and transformation) of resisting subjects. We will consider these themes across a wide spectrum of movements and moments: from early Marxist, nationalist, and anti-colonial models of struggle to the more recent uprisings against global capitalism and neo-liberal policies in the US, Latin America, and Europe. The geographical focus will be global, emphasizing connections and influences across borders and epochs, while highlighting the connections between cultural politics in "the margins" and "the center".

ANTH 4991-04 - Ethnography of Blacks in the Twentieth Century (3)

Instructor: Wende Marshall

11:00-12:15 Tu/Th, McLeod Hall 2006

We will explore the discursive construction of black life in works of anthropology, sociology, theology and fiction. Beginning with Du Bois's Philadelphia Negro, the course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and analytic frames through which black life is variously understood and map how conceptions of black life shift across the century. A specific focus of the course is the fraught relationship between blacks and modernity, and the struggle for civil rights.

ANTH 5430 - African Languages (3)

Instructor: Ellen Contini-Morava

2:00-3:45PM Tu/Th, Brooks Hall 103A

An introduction to the linguistic diversity of the African continent, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. For about three-fourths of the course we will discuss linguistic structures (sound systems, word-formation, and syntax) among a wide variety of languages; the classification of African languages; and the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. For the last fourth of the course we will address a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language and social identity, social functions of language, verbal art, the politics of language planning, and the rise of “mixed” languages among urban youth. While lectures address general and comparative topics, each student will choose one language to focus on, using published materials available in the library. This language will be the basis for the major assignments. Some prior experience with linguistics is desirable (such as LNGS 3250/7010, ANTH 2400 or ANTH 7400), but the course will also be accessible to highly motivated students who have not taken a previous linguistics course. The course fulfills the Language Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and graduate students.

DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)

Instructor: Theresa Davis

2:00-3:15PM Tu/Th, Drama Education Bldg. 217

This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENAM 3140 - African-American Literature II(3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

9:30-10:45AM Tu/Th, New Cabell 119

A continuation of ENAM 3130, African American Literature I, this course concentrates on twentieth and twenty-first century African American novels, short stories, prose essays, and poetry. This lecture and discussion based class will address literature from pivotal cultural and political moments in African American life, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Writers include, but are not limited to, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and several contemporary authors. Mandatory assignments include response paragraphs, papers, quizzes, midterm and final exams.

ENAM 4500 - Black Speculative Fiction (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

11:00-12:15 Tu/Th, Maury 113

This course seeks to explore the world of African American “speculative” fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.

Cross-listed as AAS 4500

ENCR 4500- Race in American Places (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

7:00-9:30PM Tu, Bryan 332

How do assumptions about race operate when we consider the idea of an “American Place?” This interdisciplinary seminar interrogates this question by exploring place in America within the context of the “Culture Wars,” especially as these are catalyzed by the notion of race. We consider, for instance, how place is embroiled in the ideological work of distinguishing people according to identity and, then, of fixing identity groups within unyielding hierarchies. Consider, for example, how the seemingly innocuous story of The Three Little Pigs leads us to assume racial attributes of each pig based on materials and architectural styles. Thus, it seems so natural, so correct to identify groups of people as “primitive” and “destitute” versus “civilized” and “successful” based on assumptions about their housing. What are the implications of our culture’s insistence on promoting the notion that “Africans,” say, live in huts of mud or straw. We are interested in how such assumptions linking race and place are reinforced by planning, design, and preservation concepts and practice. How does the increasing popularity of Homeowners’ Associations maintain racial territories against the spirit of legal desegregation? Does the concurrency of homelessness and home-owners-associations in American society suggest anything about prevailing assumptions about a relationship between the right to privacy and racial and class identity? We study these questions with the help of targeted discussion of readings, required field trips to places around Charlottesville, informal workshops especially to develop the ability to interpret maps, plans, and other graphic representations of places, and student delivered presentations in class. Requirements include three informal small group exercises, an individual site-visit comment paper, a mid-term and final exam, and a group research project. The last requirement is presented in a symposium that represents the culmination of the semester.

ENCR 5559- Queer Race Theory(3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

6:30-9:00PM Tu, Bryan Hall 310

How have subjects identified as queer been constituted and understood in relation to racial formations and ideologies? Focusing especially on African American same-gender loving men and women and others viewed as outside of gender or sexual norms, this course investigates the emerging theories developed to address the intersection of race and sexual orientation in structures of cultural identity, psychic subjectivity, artistic production, political economy, and social history. The course is divided into four topics: 1) We begin with the queer body politic, examining political coverage of the Proposition 8 controversy as a way of seeing how different racial groups (blacks, Latinos, whites) are currently positioned in dominant discourses related to sexual orientation. 2) We move backward to examine the historical representation of minoritized sexuality through the concept of the queer token, focusing on the writings by and about three celebrated figures: James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Cherríe Moraga. 3) The next section takes up the emergence of black queer theory in concert with related minoritized sexual orientations, particularly Asian-American and Chicano/a, focusing on readings from the following volumes: E. Patrick Johnson’s Black Queer Studies, Dwight McBride and Jennifer deVere Brody’s Plum Nelly, Syliva Molloy and R. M. Irwin’s Hispanisms and Homosexualities, Phil Harper’s Private Affairs, Jose Muñoz’s Disidentifications, and David Eng’s Racial Castration. 4) Finally, we examine mass media representations (especially film and t.v.) of minoritized queerness, focusing on Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied, Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning, David Henry Hwang and David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, and Partik-Ian Polk’s Logo tv series Noah’s Arc. Requirements include several brief commentary papers, an annotated bibliography, and a 20-page term research paper. Restricted to 4th years and Graduate Students.

Cross-listed as AAS 5528

FREN 3046 - African Literatures and Cultures (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

3:30-4:45PM M/W, Astronomy Bldg. 265

This course will explore aspects of African literatures and cultures. It will focus on selected issues of special resonance in contemporary African life. Oral literature and its continuing impact on all other art forms. Key issues in French colonial policy and its legacy in Africa: language, politics, education. The course will examine the image of the postcolonial state and society as found in contemporary arts, paintings, sculpture, music, and cinema. Selections from painters like Cheri Samba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Werewere Liking (Cameroun) and sculptors like Ousmane Sow, including such popular icons as Mamy Wata and forms such as Souwere glass painting; from musicians like Youssou Ndour (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Seigneur Rochereau, Tshala Muana (DRC), Salif Keita (Mali), and Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); from Mande, Peul, and Kabyle oral literatures in French translation; from filmmakers D.D. Mambety, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ngangura Mweze. Visit to National Museum of African Arts depending on availability of funding. The final grade will be based on contributions to discussions, a mid-term exam, 2 papers, and a final exam.

Selections from the following texts will feature among the required reading list:
Wéréwéré Liking - Statues colons
A. Sow - La Femme, la Vache, la Foi
D.T. Niane - Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue
Amadou Hampaté Ba - Koumen

FREN 4559 - French Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Currents (3)

Instructor: Yarimar Bonilla and Stephanie Berard

3:30-6:00PM Tu, Clark Hall 101

This interdisciplinary co-taught course will combine historical, anthropological, and literary approaches to the study of the French Caribbean islands. We will examine important periods in the history of French territorial expansion (including colonialism, slavery, decolonization, and the transformation of empire) with an eye towards how these histories informed the cultural and intellectual world of life in the Caribbean Colonies. We will also examine how varying ideological currents and philosophical projects (such as Negritude, Antillanité, Creolité, and the Tout-Monde) have sought to navigate the complicated relationships of alterity, political community, and national belonging that have shaped the French postcolonial world. Throughout the course we will examine the French Caribbean as an important analytical site for the study of racial hierarchies, colonial histories, and postcolonial projects.

Cross-listed as ANTH 4559

FREN 4581- The Rewriting of History through Words and Images in Caribbean and African Cinema and Literature (3)

Instructor: Stephanie Berard

2:00-3:15PM Tu/Th, New Cabell 234

This course examines how contemporary Francophone Caribbean and African writers and filmmakers attempt to reevaluate the history written on slavery and colonialism by “official” historians from the Western world. Analysis of works by poets, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Algeria and Senegal.

FREN 4811- Francophone Literature of Africa (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

10:00-10:50AM M/W/F, Astronomy Bldg. 265

Introduction to the Francophone literature of Africa; survey, with special emphasis on post- World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights of Africa. The role of cultural and literary reviews (Légitime Défense, L'Etudiant noir, and Présence Africaine) in the historical and ideological development of this literature will be examined. Special reference will be made to Caribbean writers of the Negritude movement. Documentary videos on African history and cultures will be shown and important audio-tapes will also be played regularly. Supplementary texts will be assigned occasionally. Students will be expected to present response papers on a regular basis.
In addition to the required reading material, 2 essays (60%), regular class attendance, and contribution to discussions (10%), and a final exam (30%) constitute the course requirements. Papers are due on the dates indicated on the syllabus.
Required reading:
Diop, Birago. Les contes d’Amadou Koumba .
Chevrier, J. Anthologie Africaine: Poésie
Bâ, Mariama. Une si longue lettre.
Assia Djebar. Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (Toolkit).
Boudjedra, Rachid. L'escargot entêté

Prerequisite: French 332

HIAF 2002 - Modern African History (4)

Instructor: John Mason

9:30-10:45AM Tu/Th, Minor 125

HIAF 2002 explores the history of Africa from the decline of the Atlantic slave trade, in the early nineteenth century, to the present. Our goal is to examine the historical roots of the continent's present condition. We look at the slave trade and its consequences, the European conquest of most of the African continent, African resistance to colonial rule, and the reestablishment of African independence.

We will concentrate on three regions: West Africa, especially Nigeria; Central Africa, especially the Congo and Rwanda; and southern Africa, especially South Africa. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which colonialism affected ordinary Africans and with the various strategies that Africans employed to resist, subvert, and accommodate European domination.
HIAF 2002 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history. There will be two blue book exams--a mid-term and a final--and periodic quizzes on the readings.

HIAF 2031 - The African Diaspora (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

12:30-1:45PM Tu/Th, Ruffner GOO4C

This class examines the history of the forced migration of Africans throughout the Atlantic from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. We will begin by analyzing the background to the European exploration of the Atlantic and will focus on the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of slavery in the Iberian Peninsula. We will then move to Africa and explore the interaction of Europeans and Africans along the West Coast of Africa, centering on the Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, and Bight of Biafra. The class will also pay considerable attention to the early development of the slave trade in Kongo, considering Kongolese appropriation of Christianity and diplomatic relations with Portugal. Angola will provide the last case study in Africa before we cross the Atlantic to Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. In Angola, particular attention will be paid to the formation of the Portuguese colony of Angola, the rise of the slave trade, and the social and cultural milieu of the slave trade from Angola to Brazil. In the Americas, we will focus particularly on Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, providing a broad overview of the social History/lives of African and African-descendent people, with special attention to religion and culture.

HIAF 3091 - Africa and World History (3)

Instructor: Joseph Miller

9:30-10:45AM Tu/Th, Wilson 216

HIAF 3091 explores “world history” from the perspective of Africa, for advanced undergraduates. The Department of History at the University of Virginia has offered courses placing Africa in broader “Atlantic” frameworks, mostly in the modern era but has not otherwise considered Africa’s place in the long-term history of the human race – even though genetic and other evidence establishes that all modern humans descend from ancestors who lived in Africa. Conversely, “world history”, a very recent addition to the UVa history curriculum, characteristically finds only the most marginal of roles for Africa – mostly as a continent victimized and colonized by others, Muslims and modern Europeans. Hegel, founding philosopher of the modern historical discipline, specifically excluded Africa from his schema of universal history as the continent lacking meaningful change.

HIAF 3091 tackles all these challenges: (1) to historicize an African past (all 50,000 years of it) still commonly seen in static, quasi-ethnographic terms; (2) to place this narrative of the challenges Africans faced and the changes they made in the broader story of human history throughout the world; and (3) to take their perspectives, strategies, and experiences as a basis for a fresh look at the familiar narrative of world “civilizations”. Additionally, historicizing Africa presents a rich opportunity to consider what makes history historical, among the many ways of contemplating the past. If you want to think again about what you thought you knew, about any part of the world (including the modern US), this should be the course for you. I hope to leave no one in the room unchallenged.

This course provides the narrative framework of Africa’s past through reading a current text (John Reader, Africa: A Biography) but develops significantly different interpretive emphases; the contrast will reveal the assumptions underlying the way that historians think – or should think, since surprisingly few of them actually do. We will also read a recent world-history text (Armesto, The World: A History) and critique its narrative through the argument to be developed in the course. We will also read technical articles on concepts and processes integral to understanding Africa and history. You need not have taken either HIAF 2001 or 2002 (Introductions to early and modern Africa), but if you have not you will need to take responsibility for grasping the basic narrative of Africa’s past from which the course will build.

Students will write short analytical “take-home points” at the conclusion of every class. Frequent, short map quizzes will encourage useful awareness of the geographical contexts of all human history. Written requirements will include periodic short “position papers” reflecting on the course content as it develops. There will be no in-class examinations. All student writing will be considered intensely and analytically. The final exercise will be a take-home essay responding to a single question: “Having spent a semester looking at the history of the world from the perspective of Africa, and vice versa, how do you now see the similarities and the differences between Africans’ experiences and those of other people elsewhere around the globe?”

HIAF 4501 -Seminar in African History – “Africa and the Atlantic World” (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

3:30-6:00PM Tu/Th, Randall 212

This seminar investigates the relationship between Africa and the Atlantic World between the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries. The class begins by undertaking a critical reading of the historiography of the Black Atlantic/African Diaspora (Gilroy, Matory, Mann, among several others), then moving on to analyze contemporaneous accounts by Africans, including Equiano. Key issues that will be treated are the circulation of ideas in the Atlantic through the rise of the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé, the conceptualization of slavery and the Atlantic world by Africans, as well as both failed and successful reverse migration movements. Students will write a research paper based on the accounts analyzed in class.

HIUS 3231 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Nicoletti

11:00-12:15 Tu/Th, New Cabell 118

This course will cover the history of the American South from the founding of Jamestown and the introduction of slavery in the early seventeenth century to the end of Reconstruction in the late nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways in which southern society was shaped by race. We will explore the Atlantic slave trade and the rise of slavery in the United States, gentrification and the colonial South, the role of religion in southern history, the emergence of the plantation system, the impact of the law on the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the South and the sectional crisis, the experience of the Civil War, the promise of Reconstruction, and the emergence of a new South at the end of the nineteenth century. The course format will consist of two lecture meetings a week, and the readings will average about 150 pages per week. Students will write an original research paper based on the extensive material on southern history at the University of Virginia, as well as two other short papers based on the reading. There will also be a final exam.

Possible readings may include: Anthony Parent, Foul Means, Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, Gary Gallagher, The Confederate War, Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, C. Vann Woodward, The Burden of Southern History, and John Reed Shelton, “The South: Where is it? What is it?”

HIUS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

3:30-5:30PM Tu, Maury Hall 115

"History of the Civil Rights Movement", a lecture course, will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities and consequences of the southern civil rights movement from 1900 to the mid-‘1960s. Readings, lectures and out-of-class videos will be the basis for the final examination.Texts required: Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning Custom Publishing; Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press; Wilkins, Roy with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo.
Viewing Required: “Eyes on the Prize”, America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, # 1-6, America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985, # 1 & 2, PBS Video, Blackside Inc., Boston; “The Road to Brown”, William Elwood, California Newsreel.

Students will be required to write two short papers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the two papers (25% each), the final examination (30%), and discussion section participation (20%).

HIUS 4501- History Seminar – “Black Power” (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

3:30-6:00PM Tu, Nau 141

Over the course of the semester, students will examine the dynamic ways people of African descent in the United States have struggled for cultural, economic, and political empowerment within the context of a white supremacist culture. Much of the class will focus on the 1960s and the 1970s; however, previous and subsequent periods will also be analyzed. Students should leave this class with not only a broader knowledge of “Black Power” as a cultural, political, and ideological movement, but also with a more nuanced understanding of the research methods and interpretive frameworks utilized by historians, as well as other social scientists, interested in Black Power in particular and the Black freedom struggle in general. Students will also have the opportunity to further develop their research skills and techniques through a series of assignments designed to assist them in identifying research topics and questions, interpreting primary and secondary texts, and substantiating arguments with “sound” evidence.

HIUS 4591 - Topics in United States History - UVA History: Race and Repair (3)

Instructor: Phyllis Leffler and E. Dukes

4:00-6:30PM W, New Cabell 325

This special topics class will focus on the university and the surrounding community of Charlottesville with a special emphasis on issues of race. Students will explore the history of the University from its founding and construction to the late twentieth century, exploring both the documented history and the community’s perception of that history. Topics include: the early role of the enslaved in both building and maintaining the quality of life for students and faculty; U.Va.’s position and role during the Civil War; the evolution of the student body and surrounding communities in the era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow; the values of southern Progressivism; the place of eugenics at U.Va.; early efforts at racial and gender diversity and administrative responses; the acceptance of African American students and the responses of the Black Charlottesville community; employment practices during the twentieth century; issues of growth and their impact on communities; and how that history has and has not been represented on grounds and throughout the built environment.

This course will invite and encourage community members who have worked or lived in the surrounding area to help construct the forgotten or buried histories of university/community relations from their perspective. Students enrolled in the course will develop projects that actively engage members of the community, and will develop final products that serve the wider community needs for revealing and understanding this history.

U.Va. History: Race and Repair is directly connected with the University-Community Racial Reconciliation project. The course will be team taught and will be cross-listed with ARH 4500 and PLAN 4500. A maximum of 15 History students will be allowed to enroll, along with 15 from other disciplines.

Readings and Projects: Web-based readings of articles and essays for each weekly session of the class, along with projects designed by students and community members will structure the class. Students will be expected to keep a journal, write response papers, and produce a final project.

MUEN 3690 - African Music and Dance Ensemble (2)

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

5:15-7:15PM Tu/Th, TBA

By audition first day of class, no experience expected; A practical, hands-on course focusing on the singing, drumming, and dance from West Africa (Ewe Ghana/Togo) and Central African Republic (BaAka).

MUSI 2120 - History of Jazz (4)

Instructor: Scott Deveaux

1:00-1:50PM M/W/F, Maury Hall 209

A survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.

MUSI 3090 - Performance in Africa (4)

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

4:00-4:50PM Tu/Th, Old Cabell Hall 107

Explores music/dance performance in Africa through reading, hands-on workshops, discussion, and audio and video examples. The course covers both 'traditional' and 'popular' styles, through discussion and a performance lab. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

PLCP 4810 - Politics of Sub-Saharan African

Instructor: Robert Fatton

2:00-4:30PM M, Halsey Hall 123

Studies the government and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Includes the colonial experience and the rise of African nationalism; the transition to independence; the rise and fall of African one-party states; the role of the military in African politics; the politics of ethnicity, nation- and state-building; patromonialism and patron-client relations; development problems faced by African regimes, including relations with external actors; and the political future of Southern Africa. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Africa; not open to students who have taken PLCP 381.

RELA 2850 - Afro-Creole Religions (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

9:30-10:20AM Tu/Th, McLeod Hall 1004

This course will examine primarily those religions practiced in the Caribbean and Latin America which feature an African-derived pantheon, as well as significant other New World religions (Roman Catholic devotions, Protestant revivalism) which have been deemed exemplars of religious "creolization" among African-descended populations.

RELA 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

12:00-1:45PM Tu/Th, Gibson 242

This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’s agency in indigenous religious movements, Muslim communities and Christian congregations in Africa.

Cross-listed as AAS 3000

RELC 5230 - Pentecostalism (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

3:00-6:00PM Tu, Pavillion VIII 108

This course will study the history, theology, and practices of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian movement in the world, from its origins among poor whites and recently freed African Americans to its phenomenal expansion in places like South America, Asia, and Africa. We will explore Pentecostalism's theological and historical relationship to the Methodist, Holiness, Apostolic, and Charismatic movements, as well as Pentecostal belief in phenomena like speaking in tongues, healings, miracles, and prophecy. During the course of the semester, we will ask how Pentecostalism has come to encompass one in every four Christians worldwide in the space of little over a century. Finally, the course will use race, class, and gender analysis to evaluate the cultural influences and future trajectory of Pentecostalism in the US and elsewhere in the world.

RELG 2800 - African American Religious History (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

1:00-1:50 Tu/Th, Ruffner Hall GOO4C

This course will explore African American religious traditions in their modern and historical contexts by combining an examination of current scholarship and contemporary worship. Over the course of the semester, we will explore the religious life and religious institutions of African Americans from their African antecedents to contemporary figures and movements in the US. While the course will emphasize the growth and spread of Evangelical Christianity among African Americans, it will also consider non-Christian influences-like Islam and African traditional religion-upon black churches and black communities. In considering the wide variety, popularity, economic strength, political leadership, and ubiquity of religious institutions in the African American community, we will ask what role religion plays for black people, and what role African American religious life plays in the broader scheme of American life.

RELG 3360 - New World Religions (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

11:00-12:15 Tu/Th, Monroe Hall 118

A history course which examines Latin American and Caribbean religions from the 1400s through the 1830s. We will proceed topically (in rough chronological order), studying religious encounters during the pre-Columbian era, the Spanish conquest and colonial eras, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Latin American independence (1820s), and slave emancipation in the anglophone Caribbean (1830s). The class will focus primarily upon the signature religious episodes, devotions, personalities and institutions of indigenous, African, Afro-creole, and mestizo communities, since these "gente de color" constituted the majority population in the New World during this historical epoch. We will consider issues of historiography?specifically, the problem of interpreting (sometimes hostile) extant archival sources and the use of such primary material in the writing of secondary literature. Students will develop their abilities to evaluate primary sources (in translation), and to identify the interpretive choices which scholars make in the crafting of historical narratives.

SOC 2442 - Systems of Inequality (3)

Instructor: Tara Tober

9:00-9:50AM M/W, Clark 107

This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person's life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.

SOC 3060 - Sociological Perspectives on Whiteness (3)

Instructor: Paul Shlossberg

3:30-4:35PM Tu/Th, New Cabell 341

This course investigates the social construction of race through an exploration of white identity, both theoretically and empirically. It includes an investigation of the historical genesis of white identity, its intersection with political movements and organizations, the relation of whiteness to race, ethnicity, class, gender, nation, and how whiteness is understood in popular culture, and the sociological mechanisms by which it is reproduced, negotiated, and contested.

SOC 3410 - Race & Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

2:00-3:15PM M/W, New Cabell 134

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4870 - Immigration (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

4:00-5:15PM M/W, New Cabell 216

This course examines contemporary immigration into the United States from the point of view of key theoretical debates and historical circumstances that have shaped current American attitudes toward immigration.

POTR 4270 - Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian Civilization (3)

Instructor: David Haberly

11:00-11:50AM M/W/F, New Cabell 430

Anintroduction—in English, with all readings in English—to Brazilian literature, history, and culture; about a third of the lectures and readings focus on Afro-Brazilian history and culture.

SWAG 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in US Media (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

7:00-9:30PM M, New Cabell 325

This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of "Blackness" in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. We will explore how different media, including feature films, popular television, documentaries, popular fiction, television, and print news media create categories of race and gender in different ways for (different) Americans - each media encapsulating its own markers of legitimacy and expertise - each negotiating its own ideas of authorship and audience. We will concentrate on the particular ways various media produce, display, and disseminate information; in particular, we will be analyzing cultural texts, the cultural environment in which they have been produced, and the audience reception of those texts. Finally, we will ask what responsibilities those who create and circulate information have - and whether or not the consuming/viewing public shares in any sort of responsibility. This class will enable students to cultivate theoretical tools and critical perspectives to analyze and question the influence of the popular media that saturate our lives.

AAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Wilson Hall 301

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1850s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; and the rise of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first section provides an overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impacts on Africa. The second section centers on Latin America (Brazil and Cuba) and the French Caribbean - Haiti. The last section deals with North America, tracing the history of slavery from the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Course requirements include regular attendance and three written exams.

AAS 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives (3)

Instructor: Yarimar Bonilla

Weds. 3:30-6:00PM, Monroe Hall 124

Combined with ANTH 3157

Breaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples. We will then examine the various forms of colonial and imperial power that have operated in the region during the latter part of the twentieth century and the lasting legacies of inequality and hierarchy that persist in contemporary Caribbean societies. Lastly, we will revisit the idea of the Caribbean as a tourist heaven and question popular images of the region as a site of tropical fantasy.

AAS 3200 - Martin, Malcolm and America (3)

Instructor: Mark Hadley

Mon./Weds./Fri. 2:00-2:50PM, Wilson Hall 215

Combined with RELG 3200

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism.

AAS 3456 - Supreme Court and Civil Rights (3)

Instructor: Joseph G. Hylton

Tues/Thurs. 2:00-3:15PM, New Cabell Hall 319

This course explores the role of the United States Supreme Court in defining the legality of racial distinctions in the United States in the post-Civil War era. Special attention is paid to the role of the court¿s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The class will be taught in a discussion format based upon assigned readings.

AAS 3500-1 African Peoples and Cultures (3)

Instructor: Felistas (Njoki) Osotsi

Tues/Thurs. 3:30-4:45PM, Wilson Hall 215

The course explores the cultures of various African peoples through a variety of sources – films, ethnographies, narratives and literature. We will consider how Africa has been portrayed by anthropologists, explorers, historians and the media, and focus on issues that are relevant to an understanding of contemporary African societies: village life, urbanization, migration, status of women, the struggle to gain independence from colonial powers and the postcolonial period.

* NOTE: This course counts toward the African Studies Minor. It also fulfills the “one course about Africa” requirement within the AAS Major, or can be used for AAS elective credit.

AAS 3500-2 From Motown to Hip-Hop: The Evolution of African American Music (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, Rouss Hall 410

This course takes a bold, sweeping look at the role of popular music in African Americans' push for self-definition, political power, and social recognition. It considers how musical expression has provided black women and men with an outlet for individual expression, community building, sexual pleasure, political organizing, and economic uplift. Some of the artists that we will explore in-depth include James Brown, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Public Enemy, Parliament-Funkadelic, Luther Vandross, Tupac, Lauryn Hill, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, Nikki Minaj, and Beyonce. Through an engagement with these and other artists’ sonic and visual representations (i.e. music videos) students will address larger questions surrounding the sexual exploitation of the black female body, the deep class divisions underlying black America's recurring debates over "proper" racial presentations, and white America’s historic exploitation of African American culture.

In addition to looking at the artistry of black music, we will also give attention to the business side of African American cultural productions. Thus, students will spend time looking at black owned/black-run companies like Motown, Philadelphia International, Master P’s No Limit, and Puff Daddy’s Badboy.

The primary material for this course will be written texts (books and articles), music, and videos.

AAS 4070 - Directed Reading and Research (3)

Students in the DMP enroll under this number for thesis writing.

AAS 4500 - Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues/Thurs. 11:00AM-12:15PM, Nau Hall 141

Combined with ENAM 4500

This advanced undergraduate seminar will explore the dual meaning of its title “Fictions of Black Identity.” The first implication suggests the literary inventions (novels, essays, critical works) that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. The second meaning is heavily invested in the first: that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Questions to consider include: how does one make and measure Black identity? Can one be phenotypically White and still be Black? What is the value of racial masquerade? What does it mean to be legitimately Black? Readings include, but are not limited to, Percival Everett’s Erasure, Rebecca Walker’s Black, White, and Jewish, Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle, and a range of critical essays. Mandatory assignments include critical essays, leading class discussion, midterm and final exams. This class is restricted to online waitlist and/or instructor permission. It is designed for students majoring in English, African American Studies, and/or American Studies.

AAS 4570-1 - Violence and Africa (3)

Instructor: Cassie Hays

Tues, 3:30PM - 6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 319

Via the historical and sociological study of violence and Africa, this course poses and attempts to resolve a variety of questions. First, what are the patterns and policies of imperialism and colonial governance that manifest in expressions of violence? In what ways can we see modern actions as originating in the colonial era? How are race and ethnicity solidified, reinforced, or reconfigured through the lens of violence? How and why does gender, and particularly violence against women, become a meaningful way for perpetrators to articulate control or degrade their opposition? What are the roles of environment and natural resources in instigating or perpetuating violence by and against people? How can we begin to move beyond contemporary media representations and ‘read’ the politics of violence in Africa as unexceptional?

This course will focus on the colonial origins, postcolonial manifestations, and public culture depictions of violence in Africa. We will begin with a short history of genocide; several theoretical analyses of aggression; and a brief look at the roles of media and globalization in instigating and perpetuating violence (and perceptions of violence) in Africa. Building from this foundation, we will examine the concepts of colonialism and imperialism and their practice in German Namibia, Belgian Congo, and British Kenya. We begin our study of the post- and neo-colonial with a look at Algeria’s struggle for independence from the French and a late 20th century story of poaching in Zambia. Several weeks will be spent on investigating the colonial origins of violence in South Africa and Rwanda, concluding with the closely connected issues of war and rape in the DRC and gendered violence in South Africa.

A 20-page research paper is expected at the conclusion of the semester.

AAS 4570-2 -Race, Madness, and Violence in the Epistolary Genre (3)

Instructor: Dennis Tyler

Thurs, 3:30 - 6:00, Wilson 216

This course will primarily examine issues of madness and violence in the epistolary novel. The epistolary novel is a form that uses letters as the principal mode of communication, although diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other documents (recordings, blogs, and e-mails) are sometimes used in order to heighten the authenticity of a story and to mirror the realities of everyday life. We will analyze epistolary works as a portal to the complex range of human expression. In the course, we will talk about the letter form and letter writing in a variety of ways: as a personal and intimate type of communication, as an open forum for confession, as a locus of insanity, as a sort of political activism, and, in some cases, as a source of international exchange between nations (England, African countries, and the United States).

Some of the major issues we will discuss include, but are not limited to, the representation of domestic abuse and sexuality in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the novel; the complexities of memory and melancholy as a consequence of slavery in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River; the trauma of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse in Sapphire's Push; and the crisis of identity in Percival Everett’s Erasure.

A twenty-page research paper is expected at the end of the semester.

AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

ANTH 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives (3)

Instructor: Yarimar Bonilla

Weds. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 316

Combined with AAS 3157

Breaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples. We will then examine the various forms of colonial and imperial power that have operated in the region during the latter part of the twentieth century and the lasting legacies of inequality and hierarchy that persist in contemporary Caribbean societies. Lastly, we will revisit the idea of the Caribbean as a tourist heaven and question popular images of the region as a site of tropical fantasy.

DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)

Instructor: Theresa Davis

Tues./Thurs., 2:00-3:15PM, Drama Education Bld. 217

This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENAM 3130 - African-American Survey I (3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15, New Cabell Hall 424

This course surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American letters, from Briton Hammon's Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings (1860) to W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (1901). Working our way through a variety of genres (elegy, drama, the captivity narrative, the slave narrative, the essay, public oratory, speeches, and novels), we will explore a number of matters pertinent to literary studies in general, as well as those with specific implications for African-American writing and writers. We will consider the circumstances of textual production and reception, ideas and ideologies of literary history and culture, aesthetics, authorship and audience. We will focus our attention immediately on the emergence of African-American writing under the regime of slavery and the questions it poses about "race," "authorship," "subjectivity," "self-mastery," and "freedom." We will consider the material and social conditions under which our selected texts were edited, published, marketed, and "authenticated," lingering especially on the role white abolitionists and editors played in the production and mediation of these texts for various reading publics. Our ultimate aim is to situate our selections within the broadest possible contexts of their time and ours. Other required texts include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frances Harper's Iola Leroy, William Wells Brown's Clotelle, Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition.

ENAM 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45PM, New Cabell 122

College campuses are rich sources for interrogating how places and spaces around us manifest the negotiation of power among social groups distinguished by race in America. Landscapes connected with the black struggle to secure literacy in America, for example, are particularly fruitful for such exploration. In “Reading the Black College Campus,” we consider, for instance, the landscapes that shrouded enslaved people such as Frederick Douglass as they acted on a black cultural imperative to secure literacy against the grain of antebellum law and custom. We interrogate Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses, such as Virginia Union University’s, as well as (Historically White College and University (HWCU) campuses, such as the University of Virginia’s, to understand the contestation surrounding the democratization of higher education to include opportunities for African Americans from the promising beginning of the first HBCUs during the Reconstruction period; through the curricular compromises championed by Booker T. Washington responding to the inequality engineered by a doctrine of “separate but equal” under surging Jim Crow and the progress made as a result of growing challenges on behalf of racial equality especially in the wake of World War I and of World War II; to the reconstitution of inequality by dividing the landscape into enforced race and class territories in our own post-Jim Crow moment. A student-centered course, our exploration will hinge on your careful study of required reading and other materials and on your participation in a required field trip to an HBCU campus and in related workshops to develop knowledge and abilities to interrogate graphic representations of landscapes. Requirements completed individually include a closed-book midterm and final exam and a three-page paper reflecting on the field trip. Assignments completed in groups include two informal exercises, student-led discussion of assigned materials scheduled for eight sessions of the semester and, most important, a final group research project that includes a prospectus, a report, and a presentation in a final symposium.

ENAM 3559 - Cross-Cultures of Harlem (3)

Instructor: Sandhya Shukla

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45, New Cabell 320

This course explores the cultural production, intellectual history and political movements that construct the globality of Harlem. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century, we cover the development of various ethnic and racial neighborhoods arrayed across regions of the area—Black Harlem, Jewish Harlem, Italian Harlem and Spanish Harlem—and the conflicts and intimacies inherent in their transformations over time. We inquire into the representation and life of Harlem through the lens of the navigation and contestation of difference. Considering migrancy, diaspora, nationalism, race and ethnicity, and class formation in comparative perspective brings the global into the local and effectively reimagines how “minoritized space” is made both materially and symbolically. Materials to be discussed include works by Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Piri Thomas, Yuri Kochiyama, Leroi Jones, Irving Horowitz, Gordon Parks Jr., Joe Cuba, Jacob Lawrence, and others.

ENAM 4500 - Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues/Thurs. 11:00AM-12:15PM, Nau Hall 141

Combined with AAS 4500

This advanced undergraduate seminar will explore the dual meaning of its title “Fictions of Black Identity.” The first implication suggests the literary inventions (novels, essays, critical works) that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. The second meaning is heavily invested in the first: that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Questions to consider include: how does one make and measure Black identity? Can one be phenotypically White and still be Black? What is the value of racial masquerade? What does it mean to be legitimately Black? Readings include, but are not limited to, Percival Everett’s Erasure, Rebecca Walker’s Black, White, and Jewish, Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle, and a range of critical essays. Mandatory assignments include critical essays, leading class discussion, midterm and final exams. This class is restricted to online waitlist and/or instructor permission. It is designed for students majoring in English, African American Studies, and/or American Studies.

ENAM 4814 - African-American Women Authors (3)

Instructor: Angela Davis

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, New Cabell Hall 337

We will read several novels and short stories by African American women, examining in particular how the authors portray black women as individuals and in the context of American society. This course requires active class participation, two written responses to readings (each 2 to 3 double spaced typed pages long) and a formal essay (12 to 15 pages long). The reading list is: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls; Toni Morrison, Sula, and Tar Baby; Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble; Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. Prerequisite: The course is first offered to fourth year majors in English, Women's Studies and Afro-American and African Studies.

FREN 4743 - Africa in Cinema (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Wilson Hall 141A

Study of the representation of Africa in American, Western European and African films. Ideological Constructions of the African as 'other'. Exoticism in cinema. History of African cinema. Economic issues in African cinema: production, distribution, and the role of African film festivals. The socio-political context. Women in African cinema. Aesthetic problems: themes and narrative styles.

Prerequisite: FREN 332 and FREN 344 or another 300-level literature course in French.

FREN 4813 - Introduction to Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti) (3)

Instructor: Stephanie Berard

Mon. 3:30-6:00PM, Wilson Hall 215

Focuses on the literature, culture and arts of the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti). Issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, slavery and freedom, exile and immigration, race and gender will be examined through poetry, novels, storytelling, theater, music and film analysis.

Prerequisite: A 300-level French literature course

HIAF 1501 - Reading the African Diaspora (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Thurs. 3:30-6:00, Nau 141

This seminar uses movies, novels and a vast array of audio-visual of resources (including the slave trade dataset, the largest attempt ever to quantify pre-nineteenth-century African migration) to explore the African Diaspora in the Atlantic from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. We will pay particular attention to the intellectual debates that have shaped the field of Diaspora Studies in the past sixty years. The class will closely assess state-of-the-art scholarship on African culture, formation of Africa-descent communities, and resistance to slaving. We will read Vincent Brown’s The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery; Laurent Dubois’ Avengers of the New World; and Jane Landers’ Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions. Course requirements include regular attendance and participation, class presentation, and a research paper. This class fulfills the second writing requirement.

HIAF 2001 - Early African History through the Era of the Slave Trade (4)

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

Tues/Thurs, 9:30-10:45AM, Gibson Hall 211

From the mists of the once-dark continent’s unwritten past Early African History draws out Africans’ distinctive strategies and achievements in culture, politics, and economics. Starting broadly at the dawn of history and continuing in detail from the millennium before the Present Era, HIAF 2001 follows the sometimes-surprising ways in which village elders, women, merchants, kings, cattle lords, and ordinary farmers pursued meaningful lives without the technologies that modern Americans take for granted. The last third of the course examines the ironic interplay of tragedy and ambition in a continent increasingly trapped in exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans, until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800. (A second semester of modern African history, HIAF 2002, taught in spring semester, follows subsequent events down through twentieth-century colonialism and the post-1960 era of independence and impoverishment.)

HIAF 2001 is an introductory lower-division survey. The instructor presents the major themes of the early history of the continent in twice-weekly lectures. Students meet additionally in discussion sections for reviews of readings, map quizzes, and preparation for written assignments. Requirements include short written responses to each class, weekly short map quizzes, a short paper reacting to assigned readings, and a take-home final exercise. The course belongs to the Afro-American and African Studies curriculum, qualifies for the minor in African Studies, meets the “non-western/non-modern” requirement for the major in History, counts as an adjunct course for Studies in Women and Gender, and qualifies for the College area requirements in “non-western perspectives” and “historical perspective”.

HIAF 3021 - History of Southern Africa (4)

Instructor: John Mason

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45 AM, Nau Hall 211

HIAF 3021 is a lecture and discussion course on the history of southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is on South Africa.

The course begins with a look at the pre-colonial African societies of the region, before moving on to a study of conquest, colonialism, the rise and fall of apartheid, and the recent rebirth of African independence.

By the end of the nineteenth century, all of the African peoples of southern Africa had been conquered by European powers and incorporated into Dutch, British, Portuguese, and German colonial empires. Conquest had not come easily. Every society in the region resisted European domination fiercely, sometimes for many decades before being finally defeated. Colonialism and African responses to it dramatically reshaped societies in southern African, transforming political and economic systems, gender and class relations, even religious beliefs.

Resistance to colonialism assumed new forms in the twentieth century, as Africans began to bridge ethnic divisions to create multi-ethnic trade unions, churches, political parties, and liberation movements. Particularly in South Africa, African nationalism was influenced by nonracialism, uniting blacks and progressive whites in the ultimately successful struggle against apartheid.

Course materials include biographies, memoirs, fiction, music, and films, as well as academic studies. Students will take periodic quizzes on the readings and write two blue-book exams, a mid-term and a final.

HIAF 4511 - Colloquium in African History: Color and Culture in South Africa and the United States (3)

Instructor: John Mason

Tues./Thurs. 3;30-4:45PM, New Cabell B031

HIAF 4511 is a small, research-oriented course that explores the histories of South Africa and the United States in comparative perspective.

South Africa and the American South are cousins: instantly recognizable as members of the same family, but with distinctively different personalities. Both countries owe much of their early economic development to slavery. In both complex systems of racial domination shaped society for generations before and after the emancipation of the slaves. And in both the interracial struggle against racial domination gave rise to some of the most important people and events in their histories.

At the same time, the differences between the two countries cannot be ignored. In South Africa blacks constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, and the descendants of European immigrants are a small minority. In the United States, of course, the reverse is true. Both white supremacy and the struggle against it were more violent in South Africa than in the United States. And, since 1994, a democratic political system has ensured that black South Africans have enjoyed a degree of political power that black Americans have never experienced.

The course holds the similarities and differences between the two countries in a creative tension. Through biography, autobiography, music, photography, and scholarship, we will look at the ways in which race shaped the lives of South Africans and Americans, both black and white.

HIAF 4511 is designed primarily, but not exclusively, for history majors and fulfills the history department's seminar/colloquium requirement. Students enrolling in the course must have taken at least one course in African history, preferably South Africa, and two courses in American history.

HIUS 3471 - American Labor History (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues./Thurs. 11-12:15, Nau 211

This course examines the political engagements, labor struggles, and cultural endeavors of the U.S. working class from the end of the Civil War to the present. It chronicles how the lives of the U.S. laboring majority was shaped by the rise of big business during the Gilded Age, the social upheavals of the World War I era, the economic hardships brought about by the Great Depression, the social policies of the New Deal, the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, and continuing debates over the meanings of work, citizenship, and democracy in the United States. A major issue to be explored in our discussions of U.S. working class history will be in the ways in which laboring people have been divided along racial, gender, ethnic, and regional lines.

HIUS 3671 - the History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

Tues. 3:30-5:30PM, Clark Hall 107

This lecturecourse discusses, critiquesand analyses the American civil rights movement from 1900 through the 1960s, examining the movement's leadership, opposition, tactics, setbacks, achievements and interactions with Presidents, Congressional leadership, and the involvement of rank-and-file activists.

Texts required are: James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries, Julian Bond and Andrew Lewis' I'm Gonna SitAt The Welcome Table, and Roy Wilkins' Standing Fast.

MUEN 2690/3690 or 4690 (registration number depends on student seniority in the ensemble) - African Music and Dance Ensemble (2)

*This course fulfills requirements for the African Studies Minor, but neither the AAS Major, nor the AAS Minor.

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

Thurs 5:15-7:15PM, Old Cabell Hall107

The African Music and Dance Ensemble is a practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from Western and Central Africa with performances during and at the end of the semester. Though no previous experience with music or dance is required, we will give special attention to developing tight ensemble dynamics, aural musicianship, and a polymetric sensibility. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required of each class member, the goal being to develop an ongoing UVa. African Music and Dance Ensemble.

PLAP 3700 - Racial Politics (3)

Instructor: Lynn Sanders

Mon./Wed. 11:00-11:50AM, Minor Hall125

Examines how attributions of racial difference have shaped American Politics. Topics include how race affects American political partisanship, campaigns and elections, public policy, public opinion, and American political science.

Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

PLCP 2020 - The Politics of Developing Areas (3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Mon/.Wed. 9:00-9:50AM, South Lawn Commons

PLCP 4840 Gender Politics in Africa (3)

Instructor: Denise Walsh

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, New Cabell Hall B026

Combined with SWAG 4320

This course focuses on the ways social structures and institutions shape gender in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on the state. It begins with the highly contested conceptions of gender and feminism in Africa. Next, we turn to nationalism and gendered colonial African states. With the success of national liberation movements and the rise of African women’s movements many African countries liberalized; some became democracies. Those political transformations and the spread of a human rights culture meant women in much of Africa won a greater role in politics, the third theme of the course. Their success increased hopes among feminists that the state would attack sexism. Those hopes have yet to be fulfilled, as an investigation of the region’s most contemporary pressing problems, from the sexual division of labor to HIV/AIDS.

PLPT 4060 - Politics and Literature (3)

Instructor: Lawrie Balfour

Weds. 1:00-3:30, Gibson Hall 241

This advanced, interdisciplinary seminar considers how works of fiction enhance our understanding of the terms of democratic life. How do the authors contribute to our understanding of ourselves as individuals and as citizens and to our conception of political identity (local, national, global)? In what ways do they make use of the presence of the past; how do they redescribe familiar histories or bring silenced histories to the fore; and how do they address the legacies of historic injustice (slavery, colonialism, and state violence)? In what ways do different texts work on their readers and what, if any, are the political consequences? The theme of the seminar in the Fall of 2010 is the centrality of race and the afterlife of slavery in American political experience. Our core texts will be Moby Dick, Invisible Man, and Beloved. In addition, to considering these novels as works of political theory, will read other work by Melville, Ellison, and Morrison and an array of critics. Previous upper-level course-work in AAS, Political Theory, American Studies, or English is recommended.

PSYC 4870 The Minority Family: A Psychological Inquiry (3)

Instructor: Melvin Wilson

Weds. 9:00-11:30AM, Ruffner Hall 173

Examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing 'deficit' and 'strength' research paradigms. Prerequisite: PSYC 306 and at least one course from each of the following groups: PSYC 210, 215 or 230, and PSYC 240, 250 or 260, and students in the Afro-American and African studies or studies in women and gender programs.

RELA 3890 - Christianity in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Gibson Hall 211

Combined with RELC 3890

This course examines the history of Christianity in Africa from its roots in Egypt and the Maghreb in the 2nd c. CE, to contemporary times when nearly half the continent's population claims adherence to the faith. Our historical overview will cover the flowering of medieval Ethiopian Christianity, 16th- and 17th- century Kongolese Christianity, European missions during the colonial period, the subsequent growth of independent churches, the emergence of African Christian theology, and the recent examples of charismatic and Pentecostal “mega-churches.” We will consider the relationship between colonialism and evangelism; assess efforts in translation and inculturation of the gospel; reflect on the role of healing, prophesy and spirit-possession in conversion, and explore a variety of ways of understanding religious change across the continent. We will attempt both to position the Christian movement within the wider context of African religious history, and to understand Africa's place in the larger course of Christian history.

RELC 3890 - Christianity in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Gibson Hall 211

Combined with RELA 3890

This course examines the history of Christianity in Africa from its roots in Egypt and the Maghreb in the 2nd c. CE, to contemporary times when nearly half the continent's population claims adherence to the faith. Our historical overview will cover the flowering of medieval Ethiopian Christianity, 16th- and 17th- century Kongolese Christianity, European missions during the colonial period, the subsequent growth of independent churches, the emergence of African Christian theology, and the recent examples of charismatic and Pentecostal “mega-churches.” We will consider the relationship between colonialism and evangelism; assess efforts in translation and inculturation of the gospel; reflect on the role of healing, prophesy and spirit-possession in conversion, and explore a variety of ways of understanding religious change across the continent. We will attempt both to position the Christian movement within the wider context of African religious history, and to understand Africa's place in the larger course of Christian history.

RELC 5559-4 - African Americans and the Bible (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 324

In this course, we will look at the ways African American scholars, clergy, laity, men, women, the free, and the enslaved, have read, interpreted, preached, and taught scripture. In examining these uses, we will also seek to sketch out a broader theology, history, and sociology of black people as they used the tool at hand, the Bible, to argue for their own humanity, create their own cultures, and establish their own societies. We will also undertake the interpretive enterprise, seeking to find common ground for understanding the meaning of the biblical text in our own, and others’ communities.

RELG 3200 - Martin, Malcolm and America (3)

Instructor: Mark Hadley

Mon./Weds./Fri. 2:00-2:50PM, Wilson Hall 215

Combined with AAS 3200

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism

SOC 3410 - Race and Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15, New Cabell Hall 345

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4100 - Sociology of the African-American Family (3)

Instructor: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

Mon./Weds. 3:30-4:45PM, McLeod Hall 2005

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a clear more comprehensive understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the AfricanAmerican community. Emphasis will be placed on salient contemporary public issues as well as on the historical role of the AfricanAmerican Community within urban society and on the need for students to obtain knowledge of their cultural history. The course will approach these topics from a framework of analysis with consideration for AfricanAmerican people sociological and historical relationship to the political and economic system in America. By means of discussions, lectures, videos, reading and class presentation as well as written assignments, this course will provide new insights and perspectives into the dynamic of the AfricanAmerican community.

SWAG 2224: Black Femininities and Masculinities in Media (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon. 6:30-9:00, Cocke Hall 115

This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of "Blackness" in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. We will explore how different media, including feature films, popular television, documentaries, popular fiction, television, and print news media create categories of race and gender in different ways for (different) Americans – each media encapsulating its own markers of legitimacy and expertise – each negotiating its own ideas of authorship and audience. We will concentrate on the particular ways various media produce, display, and disseminate information; in particular, we will be analyzing cultural texts, the cultural environment in which they have been produced, and the audience reception of those texts. Finally, we will ask what responsibilities those who create and circulate information have – and whether or not the consuming/viewing public shares in any sort of responsibility. This class will enable students to cultivate theoretical tools and critical perspectives to analyze and question the influence of the popular media that saturate our lives.

SWAG 4840 Gender Politics in Africa (3)

Instructor: Denise Walsh

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, New Cabell Hall B026

Combined with PLCP 4320

This course focuses on the ways social structures and institutions shape gender in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on the state. It begins with the highly contested conceptions of gender and feminism in Africa. Next, we turn to nationalism and gendered colonial African states. With the success of national liberation movements and the rise of African women’s movements many African countries liberalized; some became democracies. Those political transformations and the spread of a human rights culture meant women in much of Africa won a greater role in politics, the third theme of the course. Their success increased hopes among feminists that the state would attack sexism. Those hopes have yet to be fulfilled, as an investigation of the region’s most contemporary pressing problems, from the sexual division of labor to HIV/AIDS.

AAS 1020 - Crosscurrents in the African Diaspora (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Wilson Hall 301

This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 101. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.

AAS 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Gibson Hall 341

Combined with RELA 3000

This seminar examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’s agency in indigenous religious movements, Muslim communities and Christian congregations in Africa.

AAS 3500-1 Health and Healing in Africa (3)

Instructor: Amy Nichols-Belo

Mon/Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, Wilson Hall 215

Health and Healing in Africa examines the historical, social, political, and economic issues that produce poor health outcomes for many Africans. Exploring such topics as HIV/AIDS, maternal/child health, malaria, andmalevolent witchcraft, we will examine local understandings of what it means to be healthy and to be ill. Finally, we will investigate biomedical, 'traditional', and religious healing as practiced in a variety of African contexts. Course content will include ethnographic and historical texts, as well as feature films and documentaries.

AAS 3500-2 Development and Culture in Africa (3)

Instructor:Clare Terni

Mon/Weds. 3:30-4:45PM, Brooks Hall 103

Combined with ANTH 3500

This class examines a series of African development projects (including large dams in Lesotho and Mozambique, Tanzania's Ujamaa program, and South Africa's One Million Homes initiative). We question the impact of cultural difference on development and vice versa, as well as considering whether or not "development" might be a culture unto itself. We draw on ethnography, contemporary development theory, and critiques of development approaches.

AAS 3500-3 Afro-Brazilian History (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Nau Hall 141

Combined with HILA 3071

Surveys the history of Brazil from early Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century to Brazilian Independence in 1822. It analyzes the social, political, cultural, and religious underpinnings of colonial Brazil by seeking to integrate Brazilian history into the broader Atlantic World, primarily Africa and the Spanish colonies in the America.

AAS 4080 - Directed Reading and Research (3)

Students in the DMP enroll under this number for thesis writing.

AAS 4500-1 Critical Race Theory (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues. 6:30-9:00PM, Bryan Hall 310

Combined with ENCR 4500

What does race mean in the late 20th and early 21st century? Given the various ways in which race as a biological “fact” has been discredited, why and how does race continue to have vital significance in politics, economics, education, culture, arts, mass media, and everyday social realities? How has the notion of race shaped, and been shaped by, changing relations to other experiences of identity stemming from sexuality, class, disability, multiculturalism, nationality, and globalism? Using Winston Napier’s text African American Literary Theory: A Reader, supplemented with readings from other disciplines, this course surveys major trends in black literary theory from the 1960s to the present, focusing especially on these movements: the Black Aesthetic, womanism and feminist critique, post-structuralism, Afrocentrism, cultural and postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, Diaspora and trans-Atlantic studies, and queer theory. Although theoretical writings comprise the heart of the course, discussions will take up several literary works and other kinds of materials (film, music video, architecture, political speech) as applicable case studies. While concentrating on theories of race deriving from African American studies, we’ll also touch on some key texts from Native American, African, Asian American, and Chicano/a studies. Beyond literary theory, the class will take up readings in Birmingham cultural studies, legal theory, vernacular studies, mass media and film studies, architectural critique, and hip hop studies. The goal of the course is to give you a solid grounding in the vocabulary, key figures, concepts, debates, discursive styles, genres, and controversies that have been taken up in the broad sweep of theoretical race studies from the mid-twentieth century to the present, and to nurture your own theorizing about race and its deep cultural impact.

AAS 4500-2 Racial Geographies (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Thurs. 6:30-9:00PM, Bryan Hall 310

Combined with AMST 4500

This course focuses on how geographic knowledge has been shaped by the negotiation of power among social groups. It delineates the notion of "racial geography" using the state of Virginia—in its past and present configurations—as a frame of reference. How have concepts of race shaped the rise of Virginia, as a crown colony and a commonwealth? Assignments include readings; map interpretation; individual and group projects; midterm & final essay.

AAS 4501-1 Africa and the Atlantic (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 340

Combined with HIAF 4500-1

This reading and discussion seminar problematizes the notion of the “Black Atlantic”/Africa Diaspora/Atlantic History as a conceptual framework to analyze the forced migration of Africans throughout the Atlantic. The class will analyze the development of the concept of the Black Atlantic against the backdrop of work by African-American and Caribbean intellectuals that argued for a pan-Africanist standpoint while analyzing the history of the African diaspora. The class combines readings in theory and methodology with readings dealing with the actual experiences of cultural and social interaction between Africans and Europeans around the Atlantic. It deals with issues such as mestiçagem, the formation of creole societies in Africa, and identity. The class will also draw on examples from the Latin America – mainly Brazil – and Lusophone Africa. Readings include Herman Bennett, “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic”, African Studies Review, 43 (2000); Charles Piot, “Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy’s Black Atlantic”. The South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1, Winter; Kristin Mann, “Shifting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora and of Atlantic History and Culture”, Slavery and Abolition, 2001.

AAS 4501-2 Black Power (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 324

Combined with HIUS 4501-8

Over the course of the semester, students will examine the dynamic ways people of African descent in the United States have struggled for cultural, economic, and political empowerment within the context of a white supremacist culture. Much of the class will focus on the 1960s and the 1970s; however, previous and subsequent periods will also be analyzed. Students should leave this class with not only a broader knowledge of “Black Power” as a cultural, political, and ideological movement, but also with a more nuanced understanding of the research methods and interpretive frameworks utilized by historians, as well as other social scientists, interested in Black Power in particular and the Black freedom struggle in general. Students will also have the opportunity to further develop their research skills and techniques through a series of assignments designed to assist them in identifying research topics and questions, interpreting primary and secondary texts, and substantiating arguments with “sound” evidence.

It bears mentioning that this course will devote significant attention to the local dimension of Black Power by engaging student activism on UVA’s campus between 1968 and 1984. Significant attention will be given to students’ fight for a Black Studies department at UVA, their massive demonstrations against racial apartheid in South Africa, and their general struggle to make the University a more egalitarian place.

AAS 4570 - Passing in African-American Imagination (3)

Instructor: Alisha Gaines

Tues. 3:30PM - 6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 319

This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture textsthat think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope ofpassing. We will engage texts that representpassingas a liberating performance act, a troubling crime against authenticity, an economic necessity, and/or a stunt of liberal heroics.By the end of the course we will evaluate how our thinking aboutpassinginflects our understanding of supposedly stable categories of identity including gender, class, and sexuality as well as begin to think critically about the relationships between blood and the law, love and politics, opportunity and economics, and acting and being.

Questions to be considered include:What do we make of a literary tradition that supposedly gains coherence around issues of racial belonging but begins by questioning race itself? What work does the highly gendered depictions of the “tragic mulatta” figure (a mixed-race woman undone by her periled existence between two racialized worlds) do for, and to, African American literature? What happens when the color line crosses you? Or in other words, where is agency in this discussion? Do we really know blackness when we see it? Hear it? How (and why) is blackness performed and for (and by) whom? In what ways is identity shaped by who can and can’t pass? How has globalization made blackness an even more accessible commodity? How has hip hop? And finally, aren’t we all passing for something?

AAS 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, New Cabell Hall 335

Combined with ENAM 4845

This course seeks to explore the world of African American “speculative” fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.

AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

AMST 2753 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South (4)

Instructor: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, Clark Hall 108

Combined with ARTH 2753 and ARH 2753

“Arts and Cultures of the Slave South” is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts—architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture—it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course will cover subjects ranging from African American spirituals to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, from the plantation architectures of both big house and outbuildings to the narratives of former slaves. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. In addition to two weekly lectures by co-faculty Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson, students will also attend weekly discussion sections and special events including guest lectures, field trip, a movie night, and samplings of traditional southern foods.

AMST 4500 - Racial Geographies (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Thurs. 6:30-9:00PM, Bryan Hall 310

Combined with AAS 4500

This course focuses on how geographic knowledge has been shaped by the negotiation of power among social groups. It delineates the notion of "racial geography" using the state of Virginia—in its past and present configurations—as a frame of reference. How have concepts of race shaped the rise of Virginia, as a crown colony and a commonwealth? Assignments include readings; map interpretation; individual and group projects; midterm & final essay.

ANTH 3500 - Health and Healing in Africa (3)

Instructor: Amy Nichols-Belo

Mon/Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, Wilson Hall 215

Combined with AAS 3500-1

Health and Healing in Africa examines the historical, social, political, and economic issues that produce poor health outcomes for many Africans. Exploring such topics as HIV/AIDS, maternal/child health, malaria, andmalevolent witchcraft, we will examine local understandings of what it means to be healthy and to be ill. Finally, we will investigate biomedical, 'traditional', and religious healing as practiced in a variety of African contexts. Course content will include ethnographic and historical texts, as well as feature films and documentaries.

ANTH 3500 - Development and Culture in Africa (3)

Instructor: Clare Terni

Mon/Weds. 3:30-4:45PM, Brooks Hall 103

Combined with AAS 3500-2

This class examines a series of African development projects (including large dams in Lesotho and Mozambique, Tanzania's Ujamaa program, and South Africa's One Million Homes initiative). We question the impact of cultural difference on development and vice versa, as well as considering whether or not "development" might be a culture unto itself. We draw on ethnography, contemporary development theory, and critiques of development approaches.

ARH 2753 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South (4)

Instructor: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, Clark Hall 108

Combined with AMST 2753 and ARH 2753

“Arts and Cultures of the Slave South” is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts—architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture—it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course will cover subjects ranging from African American spirituals to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, from the plantation architectures of both big house and outbuildings to the narratives of former slaves. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. In addition to two weekly lectures by co-faculty Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson, students will also attend weekly discussion sections and special events including guest lectures, field trip, a movie night, and samplings of traditional southern foods.

ARTH 2753 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South (4)

Instructor: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, Clark Hall 108

Combined with AMST 2753 and ARH 2753

“Arts and Cultures of the Slave South” is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts—architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture—it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course will cover subjects ranging from African American spirituals to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, from the plantation architectures of both big house and outbuildings to the narratives of former slaves. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. In addition to two weekly lectures by co-faculty Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson, students will also attend weekly discussion sections and special events including guest lectures, field trip, a movie night, and samplings of traditional southern foods.

DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)

Instructor: Theresa Davis

Tues./Thurs., 2:00-3:15PM, Drama Education Bld. 217

This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENAM 3140 - African-American Literature II (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, New Cabell Hall 119

A continuation of ENAM 3130, African American Literature I, this course concentrates on twentieth and twenty-first century African American novels, short stories, prose essays, and poetry. This lecture and discussion based class will address literature from pivotal cultural and political moments in African American life, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Writers include, but are not limited to, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and several contemporary authors. Mandatory assignments include response paragraphs, papers, quizzes, midterm and final exams.

ENAM 4845- Black Speculative Fiction (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, New Cabell Hall 335

Combined with AAS 4845

This course seeks to explore the world of African American “speculative” fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.

ENCR 4500- Critical Race Theory (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues. 6:30-9:00PM, Bryan Hall 310

Combined with AAS 4500

What does race mean in the late 20th and early 21st century? Given the various ways in which race as a biological “fact” has been discredited, why and how does race continue to have vital significance in politics, economics, education, culture, arts, mass media, and everyday social realities? How has the notion of race shaped, and been shaped by, changing relations to other experiences of identity stemming from sexuality, class, disability, multiculturalism, nationality, and globalism? Using Winston Napier’s text African American Literary Theory: A Reader, supplemented with readings from other disciplines, this course surveys major trends in black literary theory from the 1960s to the present, focusing especially on these movements: the Black Aesthetic, womanism and feminist critique, post-structuralism, Afrocentrism, cultural and postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, Diaspora and trans-Atlantic studies, and queer theory. Although theoretical writings comprise the heart of the course, discussions will take up several literary works and other kinds of materials (film, music video, architecture, political speech) as applicable case studies. While concentrating on theories of race deriving from African American studies, we’ll also touch on some key texts from Native American, African, Asian American, and Chicano/a studies. Beyond literary theory, the class will take up readings in Birmingham cultural studies, legal theory, vernacular studies, mass media and film studies, architectural critique, and hip hop studies. The goal of the course is to give you a solid grounding in the vocabulary, key figures, concepts, debates, discursive styles, genres, and controversies that have been taken up in the broad sweep of theoretical race studies from the mid-twentieth century to the present, and to nurture your own theorizing about race and its deep cultural impact.

FREN 3040 - African Literatures and Cultures (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45PM, Monroe Hall 110

This course will explore aspects of African literatures and cultures. It will focus on selected issues of special resonance in contemporary African life. Oral literature and its continuing impact on all other art forms. Key issues in French colonial policy and its legacy in Africa: language, politics, education. The course will examine the image of the postcolonial state and society as found in contemporary arts, paintings, sculpture, music, and cinema. Selections from painters like Cheri Samba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Werewere Liking (Cameroun) and sculptors like Ousmane Sow, including such popular icons as Mamy Wata and forms such as Souwere glass painting; from musicians like Youssou Ndour (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Seigneur Rochereau, Tshala Muana (DRC), Salif Keita (Mali), and Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); from Mande, Peul, and Kabyle oral literatures in French translation; from filmmakers D.D. Mambety, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ngangura Mweze. Visit to National Museum of African Arts depending on availability of funding. The final grade will be based on contributions to discussions, a mid-term exam, 2 papers, and a final exam.

Selections from the following texts will feature among the required reading list:
Wéréwéré Liking - Statues colons
A. Sow - La Femme, la Vache, la Foi
D.T. Niane - Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue
Amadou Hampaté Ba - Koumen

FREN 4811 - Francophone Literature of Africa (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15PM, Monroe Hall 110

Prerequisite: French 3320

Introduction to the Francophone literature of Africa; survey, with special emphasis on post- World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights of Africa. The role of cultural and literary reviews (Légitime Défense, L'Etudiant noir, and Présence Africaine) in the historical and ideological development of this literature will be examined. Special reference will be made to Caribbean writers of the Negritude movement. Documentary videos on African history and cultures will be shown and important audio-tapes will also be played regularly. Supplementary texts will be assigned occasionally. Students will be expected to present response papers on a regular basis.
In addition to the required reading material, 2 essays (60%), regular class attendance, and contribution to discussions (10%), and a final exam (30%) constitute the course requirements. Papers are due on the dates indicated on the syllabus.
Required reading:
Diop, Birago. Les contes d’Amadou Koumba .
Chevrier, J. Anthologie Africaine: Poésie
Bâ, Mariama. Une si longue lettre.
Assia Djebar. Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (Toolkit).
Boudjedra, Rachid. L'escargot entêté

HIAF 2002 - Modern Africa (4)

Instructor: John Mason

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, Claude Moore Nursing Edu. G010

HIAF 2002 explores the history of Africa from the decline of the Atlantic slave trade, in the early nineteenth century, to the present. Our goal is to examine the historical roots of the continent's present condition. We look at the slave trade and its consequences, the European conquest of most of the African continent, African resistance to colonial rule, and the reestablishment of African independence.

We will concentrate on three regions: West Africa, especially Nigeria; Central Africa, especially the Congo and Rwanda; and southern Africa, especially South Africa. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which colonialism affected ordinary Africans and to the various strategies that Africans employed to resist, subvert, and accommodate European domination.

HIAF 2002 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history. There will be two blue book exams--a mid-term and a final--and periodic quizzes on the readings.

HIAF 3091 - Africa and World History (3)

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

Tues/Thurs, 9:30-10:45AM, Ruffner Hall G004B

HIAF 3091 explores “world history” from the perspective of Africa, for advanced undergraduates.

The Department of History at the University of Virginia offers courses placing Africa in broader “Atlantic” frameworks, mostly in the modern era but does not otherwise considered Africa’s place in the long-term history of the human race – even though genetic and other evidence establishes that all modern humans descend from ancestors who lived in Africa. Conversely, “world history”, a recent addition to the UVa history curriculum, characteristically finds only the most marginal of roles for Africa – mostly as a continent victimized and colonized by others, Muslims as well a modern Europeans. Hegel, founding philosopher of the modern historical discipline, specifically excluded Africa from his schema of universal history as the continent lacking meaningful change.

HIAF 3091 tackles these challenges: (1) to historicize an African past (all 50,000 years of it) still commonly seen in static, quasi-ethnographic terms; (2) to place this narrative of the challenges Africans faced and the changes they made in the broader story of human history throughout the world; and (3) to take their perspectives, strategies, and experiences as a basis for a fresh look at the familiar narrative of world “civilizations” that turn out, upon examination, to celebrate unsustainably high levels of militarization. Additionally, historicizing Africa presents a rich opportunity to consider what, among the many ways of contemplating the past, makes history historical. If you want to think again about what you thought you knew, about any part of the world (including the modern US), this should be the course for you.

HIAF 3091 provides the narrative framework of Africa’s past through reading a current text (Gilbert and Reyolds, Africa in World History) but develops significantly different interpretive emphases; the contrast will reveal assumptions underlying the way that historians think – or should think, since surprisingly few of them actually do. We will also read a recent world-history text (Armesto, The World: A History) and also critique its narrative through the argument to be developed in the course. We will also read technical articles on concepts and processes integral to understanding Africa and history. You need not have taken either HIAF 2001 or 2002 (Introductions to early and modern Africa), but if you have not you will need to take responsibility for grasping the basic narrative of Africa’s past from which the course will build.

Students will write short analytical “take-home points” at the conclusion of every class. Frequent, short map quizzes will encourage useful awareness of the geographical contexts of all human history. Written requirements will include periodic short “position papers” reflecting on the course content as it develops. There will be no in-class examinations. All student writing will be considered intensely and analytically. The final exercise will be a take-home essay responding to a single question: “Having spent a semester looking at the history of the world from the perspective of Africa, and vice versa, how do you now see the similarities and the differences between Africans’ experiences and those of other people elsewhere around the globe?”

HIAF 4501 - Africa and the Atlantic (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell 340

Combined with AAS 4501

This reading and discussion seminar problematizes the notion of the “Black Atlantic”/Africa Diaspora/Atlantic History as a conceptual framework to analyze the forced migration of Africans throughout the Atlantic. The class will analyze the development of the concept of the Black Atlantic against the backdrop of work by African-American and Caribbean intellectuals that argued for a pan-Africanist standpoint while analyzing the history of the African diaspora. The class combines readings in theory and methodology with readings dealing with the actual experiences of cultural and social interaction between Africans and Europeans around the Atlantic. It deals with issues such as mestiçagem, the formation of creole societies in Africa, and identity. The class will also draw on examples from the Latin America – mainly Brazil – and Lusophone Africa. Readings include Herman Bennett, “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic”, African Studies Review, 43 (2000); Charles Piot, “Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy’s Black Atlantic”. The South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1, Winter; Kristin Mann, “Shifting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora and of Atlantic History and Culture”, Slavery and Abolition, 2001.

HIUS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

Tues. 3:30-5:30PM, New Cabell Hall 138

This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities and consequences of the southern civil rights movement from 1900 to the mid-‘1960s. The movement, largely composed of grass-roots unknowns, was based on a culture of resistance instilled by racially restrictive laws and customs institutionalized by the resistant white South following the demise of Reconstruction. By employing a variety of tactics, at the end of the ‘60s decade, it had won impressive victories against state-sanctioned discrimination. Readings, lectures and videos will be the basis for the final examination. Students will be required to write two short papers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the two papers (25% each), the final examination (30%), and discussion section participation (20%).

Texts required: Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning Custom Publishing; Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press; Wilkins, Roy with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo.

MUSI 2120 - History of Jazz (4)

Instructor: Scott DeVeaux

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15PM, Maury Hall 209

A survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.

MUSI 3090 - Performance in Africa (4)

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

Tues./Thurs 4:00-4:50, Seminar in Old Cabell Hall107 or School Visit

This course explores performance in Africa through reading, discussion, audio and video examples, hands-on practice, and -- new this semester -- teaching and performing with local school children. The course meets together with MUSI 3690 (African Drumming and Dance Ensemble), but is a full academic course. Students in Music 3090 are automatically part of the UVA African Music and Dance Ensemble. Your role in the Ensemble as learner and performer is crucial to your overall work in the course. This semester, the Community Engagement initiative will involve students participating once a week in an after-school club, teaching and mentoring children from two area schools.

We will explore African music/dance styles – focusing on Ewe music from Ghana and Togo and BaAka music from the Central African Republic, but branching to other forms and genres-- their sociomusical circumstances and processes, as well as performed resistances and responses to the colonial and post/neo-colonial encounter. In addition, we will address the politics and processes involved in translating performance practices from one cultural context to another. Each students’ personal relationship to the material/experience will be integrated into study. Readings, discussions, and written work will focus heavily on topics and issues related to the main music/dance traditions that we are learning to perform this semester, though we may venture beyond those areas from time to time. The course will explore both "traditional" and "popular" styles, leading us to question those categories.

There is an informal audition for this course. No experience is expected, just come to the first evening class meeting (5:15) ready to sing and dance (in groups).

PLCP 4810 - The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Mon. 3:30-6:00PM, Pavilion VIII 108

Studies the government and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Includes the colonial experience and the rise of African nationalism; the transition to independence; the rise and fall of African one-party states; the role of the military in African politics; the politics of ethnicity, nation- and state-building; patromonialism and patron-client relations; development problems faced by African regimes, including relations with external actors; and the political future of Southern Africa. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Africa; not open to students who have taken PLCP 381.

PLPT 3200 - African American Political Thought (3)

Instructor: Lawrie Balfour

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15PM, Gibson Hall 342

This course aims to introduce you to both the critical and the constructive dimensions of African American political thought. Through our readings and discussions, we will assess the claims that black Americans have made upon the polity, how they have defined themselves, and how they have sought to redefine the basic terms of American public life. Among the themes that we will explore are the relationship between slavery and democracy, the role of historical memory in political life, the political significance of culture, the connections between “race” and “nation,” and the tensions between claims for black autonomy and claims for integration, as well as the meaning of such core political concepts as citizenship, freedom, equality, progress, and justice. As we focus our attention on these issues, we will be mindful of the complex ways in which the concept of race has been constructed and deployed and its interrelationship with other elements of identity such as gender, sexuality, class, and religion. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Marlon Riggs, Cathy Cohen, and Toni Morrison.

RELA 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Gibson Hall 242

Combined with AAS 3000

This seminar examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’s agency in indigenous religious movements, Muslim communities and Christian congregations in Africa.

RELC 5230 - Pentecostalism (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 242

This course will study the history, theology, and practices of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian movement in the world, from its origins among poor whites and recently freed African Americans to its phenomenal expansion in places like South America, Asia, and Africa. We will explore Pentecostalism’s theological and historical relationship to the Methodist, Holiness, Apostolic, and Charismatic movements, as well as Pentecostal belief in phenomena like speaking in tongues, healings, miracles, and prophecy. During the course of the semester, we will ask how Pentecostalism has come to encompass one in every four Christians worldwide in the space of little over a century. Finally, the course will use race, class, and gender analysis to evaluate the cultural influences and future trajectory of Pentecostalism in the US and elsewhere in the world.

RELG 2559 - Religion and Race in Film (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM, Chemistry Bldg. 303

This course will explore themes of religion, race, and relationship to the religious or racial "other" in films from the silent era to the present. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these images can be interpreted. The films selected all deal with issues of race, religion, gender, and relationship, and ask the ultimate question, "How should we treat one another?"

RELG 2800 - African American Religious History (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Mon./Weds. 1:00-1:50PM, Gibson Hall 211

Why are churches still segregated when every other American institution has made relatively successful efforts at integration? RELG 2800, “African American Religious History” will explain the history of the color line that still separates US churches. This course explores African American religious traditions by combining an examination of current scholarship and contemporary worship. While the course will emphasize the growth and spread of Evangelical Christianity among African Americans, it will also consider non-Christian influences like Islam and African traditional religions upon black churches and black communities. In considering the wide variety, popularity, economic strength, political leadership, and ubiquity of religious institutions in the African American community, what role does religion play for black people? Why, after hundreds of years, is 11 am on Sunday morning still the most segregated hour of the week in the US?

SOC 2442 - Systems of Inequality (3)

Instructor: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15PM, Minor Hall 125

This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person's life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.

SOC 3410 - Race & Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, New Cabell Hall 122

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

AAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1850s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; and the rise of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first section provides an overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impacts on Africa. The second section centers on Latin America (Brazil and Cuba) and the French Caribbean - Haiti. The last section deals with North America, tracing the history of slavery from the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Course requirements include regular attendance and three written exams.

AAS 2559 - Black Femininites and Masculinities in the Media (3)

IInstructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon. 2:00-4:30

This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of "Blackness" in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. We will explore how different media, including feature films, popular television, documentaries, popular fiction, television, and print news media create categories of race and gender in different ways for (different) Americans – each media encapsulating its own markers of legitimacy and expertise – each negotiating its own ideas of authorship and audience. We will concentrate on the particular ways various media produce, display, and disseminate information; in particular, we will be analyzing cultural texts, the cultural environment in which they have been produced, and the audience reception of those texts. Finally, we will ask what responsibilities those who create and circulate information have – and whether or not the consuming/viewing public shares in any sort of responsibility. This class will enable students to cultivate theoretical tools and critical perspectives to analyze and question the influence of the popular media that saturate our lives.

* Another section of this course is offered on Mon. 6:30-9:00 as SWAG 2224 (See below)

AAS 2700 - Festivals of the Americas (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM

Combined with RELG 2700

By reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicity.

AAS 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Tues. 6:30-9:00PM

Combined with ENAM 3280

Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

AAS 3456 - Supreme Court and Civil Rights (3)

Instructor: Gordon Hylton

Mon./Weds. 4:00-5:15PM

This course explores the role of the United States Supreme Court in defining the legality of racial distinctions in the United States in the post-Civil War era. Special attention is paid to the role of the court’s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The class will be taught in a discussion format based upon assigned readings.

AAS 3500-1 Development and Culture in Africa (3)

Instructor: Niklas Hultin

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

This course draws on insights from critical theory to examine social issues, culture and development in Africa. As part of a broader introduction to the history and politics of the continent, it explores the general contours of European colonialism, national independence, and the position of African states in today's global economic order. Against this backdrop, the course teaches students to handle various theories of underdevelopment and draws attention to specific case studies – such as Nigeria and South Africa – to discuss issues related to race, class, gender, trade, violence, and HIV/AIDS.

AAS 3500-2 - Black Fire: African America Artistic Expression, Black Studies, and the Struggle for Freedom (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Mon/Weds. 2:00-3:15PM

"My field is black studies. In that field, I’m trying to hoe the hard row of beautiful things. I try to study them and I also try to make them. Elizabeth Alexander says 'look for color everywhere.' For me, color + beauty = blackness which is not but nothing other than who, and deeper still, where I am." Fred Moten

Early in the spring of 1969, an Ad Hoc Committee of the Black Students for Freedom and the Black Academic Community at the University of Virginia submitted a fourteen page proposal to key University administrators, demanding the formation of an African-American Studies program. The Committee’s proposal placed an emphasis on five important areas: history, sociology, economics, politics, and the arts. In their discussion of the critical importance of the arts, black student leaders emphasized the necessity of offering courses on African Americans’ contributions to literature, music, theater, dance, sculpture and painting. Their demands bore the imprint of a historical moment in which African American artists, writers, and consumers raised several important questions about the politics of black art and its relationship to the black liberation struggle: If popular art informs public perception, then what type of images and messages should the politically engaged artist put for th in his or her cultural productions? To what extent should African American artists subscribe to a black aesthetic, and who has the power to define the social, political, and cultural parameters of that aesthetic?

Throughout the fall semester, the course, “Black Fire” will engage these and other important questions by looking at various artists and cultural productions that have been instrumental in shaping the texture of social and cultural life in contemporary America. Significant attention will be given to the ways in which black women and men have relied on art as a vehicle for community building, political organizing, economic uplift, and of course, individual expression. On a related note, our class will engage the ways in which African American students at UVA—under the leadership and guidance of BSA and OAAA— have historically sought to integrate these artistic developments into the curriculum of African American Studies and the broader University life. The purpose here is to provide students with a sense of the local and national dimensions of the black arts movement.

For this broad course, topics of extensive discussion include but are not limited to the cultural politics of BSA’s 1970s “Black Culture Week” series; representations of black urban realism in 1970s African American music, particularly soul, funk, and fusion jazz; the poetics and politics of the Black Arts movement; the anti-penological discourses pervading the music of Gil-Scott Heron during the 1970s and early 1980s; Michael Jordan, Nike, and the global commodification of black style; The Cosby Show, A Different World and the expansion of the black bourgeoisie; the Native Tongues movement, Afrocentricity and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop; OutKast, Jason Moran, and the search for a Southern black Aesthetic; Prince, Meshell Ndegeogello, and the politics of black sexuality; and the influence of the Neo-Soul movement in black music and film. Possible readings for the course include Angela Davis’ “Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People’s Culture,” Herman S. Gray’s Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation and Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness; The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader; Christine Acham: Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power; and Portia Maultsby’s African American Music: An Introduction.

AAS 3500-3 Women Writing Africa (3)

Instructor: Barbara Boswell

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

This survey course serves as an introduction to the literature of African women writers. It aims to situate African women’s literary production within the political and historical contexts in which these works are produced, and broadly examine the issues selected African women writers have chosen to highlight in their fiction. Particular attention will be paid to constructions and critiques of gender relations within each text. Novels include Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1989), Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1975), Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1989), Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1989), Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes (1991), Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy’s of Motherhood (1979), Bessie Head’s Maru (1971), Rayda Jacobs’s The Slave Book (2000), and Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins (2002).

AAS 3559 - African American Health Professionals (3)

Instructor: Preston Reynolds

Tues. 3:30-6:00

This course addresses important issues of race and health disparities, as well as offering students an introduction to the understudied history of black medical professionals. Over the past three centuries, African American physicians, dentists, nurses and public health professionals have made major contributions to eliminating health disparities, offering, in many instances, the only source of medical and dental care available. Many of our majors consider a career in medicine--either as physicians, nurses or public health workers--and this course will surely be relevant for them. Students will also have the valuable experience of examing an array of primary documents pertaining to African American health care professionals in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the South.

AAS 3652 - African-American History Since 1865 (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15

Combined with HIUS 3652

This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with a wide range of primary and secondary texts, along with multimedia, students will examine African Americans’ endeavors to build strong families and communities, create vibrant and socially meaningful artistic productions, and establish a robust political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world. Some of the questions that this course will explore include but are not limited to: How does an engagement with African American history broaden our understanding of such concepts as “freedom,” “democracy,” "race," and “nation.” How have African American leaders sought to shape U.S. public policy in ways that would enhance the quality of life for laboring people, particularly the working poor? What were the major philosophical and tactical points of disagreement among black freedom fighters during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras? And lastly, how have African Americans relied on artistic expression, i.e., music, television, film, and the visual arts, to strengthen their movements for social justice?

AAS 4070 - Directed Reading and Research (3)

Students in the DMP enroll under this number for thesis writing.

AAS 4500-1 - Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

Combined with ENAM 4500

This advanced undergraduate seminar will explore the dual meaning of its title “Fictions of Black Identity.” The first implication suggests the literary inventions (novels, essays, critical works) that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. The second meaning is heavily invested in the first: that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Questions to consider include: how does one make and measure Black identity? Can one be phenotypically White and still be Black? What is the value of racial masquerade? What does it mean to be legitimately Black? Readings include, but are not limited to, Percival Everett’s Erasure, Rebecca Walker’s Black, White, and Jewish, Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle, and a range of critical essays. Mandatory assignments include critical essays, leading class discussion, midterm and final exams. This class is restricted to online waitlist and/or instructor permission. It is designed for students majoring in English, African American Studies, and/or American Studies.

AAS 4500-2 - Race in American Places (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Weds. 6:30-9:00

Combined with ENCR 4500

How do assumptions about race operate when we consider the idea of an “American Place?” This interdisciplinary seminar interrogates this question by exploring place in America within the context of the “Culture Wars,” especially as these are catalyzed by the notion of race. We consider, for instance, how place is embroiled in the ideological work of distinguishing people according to identity and, then, of fixing identity groups within unyielding hierarchies. Consider, for example, how the seemingly innocuous story of The Three Little Pigs leads us to assume racial attributes of each pig based on materials and architectural styles. Thus, it seems so natural, so correct to identify groups of people as “primitive” and “destitute” versus “civilized” and “successful” based on assumptions about their housing. What are the implications of our culture’s insistence on promoting the notion that “Africans,” say, live in huts of mud or straw. We are interested in how such assumptions linking race and place are reinforced by planning, design, and preservation concepts and practice. How does the increasing popularity of Homeowners’ Associations maintain racial territories against the spirit of legal desegregation? Does the concurrency of homelessness and home-owners-associations in American society suggest anything about prevailing assumptions about a relationship between the right to privacy and racial and class identity? We study these questions with the help of targeted discussion of readings, required field trips to places around Charlottesville, informal workshops especially to develop the ability to interpret maps, plans, and other graphic representations of places, and student delivered presentations in class. Requirements include three informal small group exercises, an individual site-visit comment paper, a mid-term and final exam, and a group research project. The last requirement is presented in a symposium that represents the culmination of the semester.

AAS 4570-1 The Phenomenon of Oprah's Book Club (3)

Instructor: Dennis Tyler

Thurs. 3:30-6:30PM

Since its inception in September 1996, Oprah’s Book Club has transformed the literary landscape in a variety of profound ways—from ushering in a new wave of enthusiastic readers and spiking the sale of books around the globe to reshaping the advertising and marketing of fiction and offering readers a popular way of engaging literature. This level of success has allowed Oprah to accomplish her ultimate goal: to make her book club “the biggest book club in the world and get people reading again.”

Oprah’s mission—while extraordinary and spectacular in its scope—could not have been accomplished without, to some extent, drawing attention away from her selected texts and their formal and aesthetic qualities. Indeed, the scale and production of Oprah’s Book Club have raised a number of critical questions regarding both the advantages and drawbacks of a televised book club that are worthy of further exploration. For instance, what methods does the book club employ to make literature accessible to a mass televisual audience, and why does an extended discussion of literary form, content, and genre often get condensed in order to reach and maintain such a large following? How does the book club serve as a litmus test for the ongoing debates between highbrow and lowbrow literary cultures? In what way does the book club figure Oprah as the arbiter of literary taste, and what kind of backlash does she receive by assuming this role? How does Oprah use her book club to popularize and deify her selected authors? And, finally, in what way should U.S. public culture interpret the book club’s logo: Should it be understood as an innocuous seal of approval, as a symbol of sheer consumerism and corporatization in the global literary marketplace, or as something more complex and elaborate? We will explore these matters and questions as we engage the literature of Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Ernest Gaines, and Jonathan Franzen (among others).

A twenty-page research paper is required for the course.

AAS 4570-2 The Black Body in Transnational Translation (3)

Instructor: Barbara Boswell

Mon. 3:30-6:00

This interdisciplinary course has a strong emphasis on visual culture, and examines the way in which the figure of the “black body’ is discursively and visually constructed as it migrates globally and through history. The course aims to impart to students the ability to deconstruct the way the black body has been configured throughout history and in contemporary visual culture. Paying attention to the ways bodies are racialized, gendered, and sexualized in global cultural production, students will learn how to read the black body as “text” on which the dominant ideologies of its time are inscribed. The course starts by examining the body of the slave, reading texts on scientific racism, and unpacking the role of scientific racism in providing a rationale for slavery. Next, students examine the sexualized black female body through a reading of the life of Saartjie Baartman, the so-called South African “Hottentot Venus” who was brought to Europe in 1810 and put on display. Participants expand this theme by looking at the construction of the black male body as hypersexualized and dangerous, through the work of Ghanaian feminist filmmaker Yaba Badoe in her path-breaking documentary, “I Want Your Sex” (1990), and by viewing excerpts from films such as “Birth of a Nation” (1915). Students conclude this session on the black gendered body by critically reviewing contemporary film and music videos produced in the USA.

The second part of this course examines the ways in which black artists and writers in Africa and throughout the diaspora have chosen to represent race. Drawing on my published scholarship on the work of writer Doreen Baingana and filmmaker Yaba Badoe, this section examines the art of, amongst others, Bernie Searle, a South African visual artist, Ugandan writer Doreen Baingana, and African American visual artist Kara Walker. This section of the course aims to explore art as a mode of resistance to stereotypical racial images of the black body. Texts include excerpts from Amina Mama’s Beyond the Masks: Black Women and Subjectivity (1991), Kwesi Kwa Prah’s Discourses on Difference, Discourses on Oppression (2002), Dorothy Roberts’s Killing the Black Body (1997), and Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (2005).

AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)

Instructor: Theresa Davis

Tues./Thurs., 2:00-3:15PM

This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENAM 3130 - African-American Survey I (3)

Instructor: Deborah E. McDowell

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15PM

This course surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American letters, from Briton Hammon's Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings (1860) to W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (1901). Working our way through a variety of genres (elegy, drama, the captivity narrative, the slave narrative, the essay, public oratory, speeches, and novels), we will explore a number of matters pertinent to literary studies in general, as well as those with specific implications for African-American writing and writers. We will consider the circumstances of textual production and reception, ideas and ideologies of literary history and culture, aesthetics, authorship and audience. We will focus our attention immediately on the emergence of African-American writing under the regime of slavery and the questions it poses about "race," "authorship," "subjectivity," "self-mastery," and "freedom." We will consider the material and social conditions under which our selected texts were edited, published, marketed, and "authenticated," lingering especially on the role white abolitionists and editors played in the production and mediation of these texts for various reading publics. Our ultimate aim is to situate our selections within the broadest possible contexts of their time and ours. Other required texts include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frances Harper's Iola Leroy, William Wells Brown's Clotelle, Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition.

ENAM 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Tues. 6:30-9:00PM

Combined with AAS 3280

Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 4500 - Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

Combined with AAS 4500

This advanced undergraduate seminar will explore the dual meaning of its title “Fictions of Black Identity.” The first implication suggests the literary inventions (novels, essays, critical works) that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. The second meaning is heavily invested in the first: that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Questions to consider include: how does one make and measure Black identity? Can one be phenotypically White and still be Black? What is the value of racial masquerade? What does it mean to be legitimately Black? Readings include, but are not limited to, Percival Everett’s Erasure, Rebecca Walker’s Black, White, and Jewish, Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle, and a range of critical essays. Mandatory assignments include critical essays, leading class discussion, midterm and final exams. This class is restricted to online waitlist and/or instructor permission. It is designed for students majoring in English, African American Studies, and/or American Studies.

ENAM 4500 - Space and Time in Harlem (3)

Instructor: Sandhya Shukla

Tues. 3:30-6:00PM

ENCR 4500- Race in American Places (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison

Weds. 6:30-9:00PM

Combined with AAS 4500

How do assumptions about race operate when we consider the idea of an “American Place?” This interdisciplinary seminar interrogates this question by exploring place in America within the context of the “Culture Wars,” especially as these are catalyzed by the notion of race. We consider, for instance, how place is embroiled in the ideological work of distinguishing people according to identity and, then, of fixing identity groups within unyielding hierarchies. Consider, for example, how the seemingly innocuous story of The Three Little Pigs leads us to assume racial attributes of each pig based on materials and architectural styles. Thus, it seems so natural, so correct to identify groups of people as “primitive” and “destitute” versus “civilized” and “successful” based on assumptions about their housing. What are the implications of our culture’s insistence on promoting the notion that “Africans,” say, live in huts of mud or straw. We are interested in how such assumptions linking race and place are reinforced by planning, design, and preservation concepts and practice. How does the increasing popularity of Homeowners’ Associations maintain racial territories against the spirit of legal desegregation? Does the concurrency of homelessness and home-owners-associations in American society suggest anything about prevailing assumptions about a relationship between the right to privacy and racial and class identity? We study these questions with the help of targeted discussion of readings, required field trips to places around Charlottesville, informal workshops especially to develop the ability to interpret maps, plans, and other graphic representations of places, and student delivered presentations in class. Requirements include three informal small group exercises, an individual site-visit comment paper, a mid-term and final exam, and a group research project. The last requirement is presented in a symposium that represents the culmination of the semester.

FREN 3046 - African Literatures and Cultures (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45PM

This course will explore aspects of African literatures and cultures. It will focus on selected issues of special resonance in contemporary African life. Oral literature and its continuing impact on all other art forms. Key issues in French colonial policy and its legacy in Africa: language, politics, education. The course will examine the image of the postcolonial state and society as found in contemporary arts, paintings, sculpture, music, and cinema. Selections from painters like Cheri Samba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Werewere Liking (Cameroun) and sculptors like Ousmane Sow, including such popular icons as Mamy Wata and forms such as Souwere glass painting; from musicians like Youssou Ndour (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Seigneur Rochereau, Tshala Muana (DRC), Salif Keita (Mali), and Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); from Mande, Peul, and Kabyle oral literatures in French translation; from filmmakers D.D. Mambety, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ngangura Mweze. Visit to National Museum of African Arts depending on availability of funding. The final grade will be based on contributions to discussions, a mid-term exam, 2 papers, and a final exam.

Selections from the following texts will feature among the required reading list:
Wéréwéré Liking - Statues colons
A. Sow - La Femme, la Vache, la Foi
D.T. Niane - Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue
Amadou Hampaté Ba - Koumen

FREN 3585 - Literature and Culture of North Africa (3)

Instructor: Majida Bargash

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15PM

FREN 4743 Africa in Cinema (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM

HIAF 2001 - Early African History through the Era of the Slave Trade (4)

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM

From the mists of the once-dark continent’s unwritten past Early African History draws out Africans’ distinctive strategies and achievements in culture, politics, and economics. Starting broadly at the dawn of history and continuing in detail from the millennium before the Present Era, HIAF 2001 follows the sometimes-surprising ways in which village elders, women, merchants, kings, cattle lords, and ordinary farmers pursued meaningful lives without the technologies that modern Americans take for granted. The last third of the course examines the ironic interplay of tragedy and ambition in a continent increasingly trapped in exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans, until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800. (A second semester of modern African history, HIAF 2002, taught in spring semester, follows subsequent events down through twentieth-century colonialism and the post-1960 era of independence and impoverishment.)

HIAF 2001 is an introductory lower-division survey. The instructor presents the major themes of the early history of the continent in twice-weekly lectures. Students meet additionally in discussion sections for reviews of readings, map quizzes, and preparation for written assignments. Requirements include short written responses to each class, weekly short map quizzes, a short paper reacting to assigned readings, and a take-home final exercise. The course belongs to the Afro-American and African Studies curriculum, qualifies for the minor in African Studies, meets the “non-western/non-modern” requirement for the major in History, counts as an adjunct course for Studies in Women and Gender, and qualifies for the College area requirements in “non-western perspectives” and “historical perspective”.

HIAF 3021 - History of Southern Africa (3)

Instructor: John Edwin Mason

Tues/Thurs, 9:30-10:45AM

HIAF 3021 is a lecture and discussion course on the history of southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is on South Africa.

The course begins with a look at the pre-colonial African societies of the region, before moving on to a study of conquest, colonialism, the rise and fall of apartheid, and the recent rebirth of African independence.

By the end of the nineteenth century, all of the African peoples of southern Africa had been conquered by European powers and incorporated into Dutch, British, Portuguese, and German colonial empires. Conquest had not come easily. Every society in the region resisted European domination fiercely, sometimes for many decades before being finally defeated. Colonialism and African responses to it dramatically reshaped societies in southern African, transforming political and economic systems, gender and class relations, even religious beliefs.

Resistance to colonialism assumed new forms in the twentieth century, as Africans began to bridge ethnic divisions to create multi-ethnic trade unions, churches, political parties, and liberation movements. Particularly in South Africa, African nationalism was influenced by nonracialism, uniting blacks and progressive whites in the ultimately successful struggle against apartheid.

Course materials include biographies, memoirs, fiction, music, and films, as well as academic studies. Students will take periodic quizzes on the readings and write two blue-book exams, a mid-term and a final.

HIAF 4511 - Colloquium in African History: Color and Culture in South Africa and the United States (4)

Instructor: John Edwin Mason

Thurs. 3:30-4:45PM

HIAF 4511 is a small, research-oriented course that explores the histories of South Africa and the United States in comparative perspective.

South Africa and the American South are cousins: instantly recognizable as members of the same family, but with distinctively different personalities. Both countries owe much of their early economic development to slavery. In both complex systems of racial domination shaped society for generations before and after the emancipation of the slaves. And in both the interracial struggle against racial domination gave rise to some of the most important people and events in their histories.

At the same time, the differences between the two countries cannot be ignored. In South Africa blacks constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, and the descendants of European immigrants are a small minority. In the United States, of course, the reverse is true. Both white supremacy and the struggle against it were more violent in South Africa than in the United States. And, since 1994, a democratic political system has ensured that black South Africans have enjoyed a degree of political power that black Americans have never experienced.

The course holds the similarities and differences between the two countries in a creative tension. Through biography, autobiography, music, photography, and scholarship, we will look at the ways in which race shaped the lives of South Africans and Americans, both black and white.

HIAF 4511 is designed primarily, but not exclusively, for history majors and fulfills the history department's seminar/colloquium requirement. Students enrolling in the course must have taken at least one course in African history, preferably South Africa, and two courses in American history.

HIST 4591 - The Transatlantic Slave Trade (3-4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM

HIUS 3652 - African-American History Since 1865 (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15

Combined with AAS 3652

This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with a wide range of primary and secondary texts, along with multimedia, students will examine African Americans’ endeavors to build strong families and communities, create vibrant and socially meaningful artistic productions, and establish a robust political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world. Some of the questions that this course will explore include but are not limited to: How does an engagement with African American history broaden our understanding of such concepts as “freedom,” “democracy,” "race," and “nation.” How have African American leaders sought to shape U.S. public policy in ways that would enhance the quality of life for laboring people, particularly the working poor? What were the major philosophical and tactical points of disagreement among black freedom fighters during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras? And lastly, how have African Americans relied on artistic expression, i.e., music, television, film, and the visual arts, to strengthen their movements for social justice?

HIUS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

Tues. 3:30-5:30PM

This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities and consequences of the southern civil rights movement from 1900 to the mid-‘1960s. The movement, largely composed of grass-roots unknowns, was based on a culture of resistance instilled by racially restrictive laws and customs institutionalized by the resistant white South following the demise of Reconstruction. By employing a variety of tactics, at the end of the ‘60s decade, it had won impressive victories against state-sanctioned discrimination. Readings, lectures and videos will be the basis for the final examination. Students will be required to write two short papers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the two papers (25% each), the final examination (30%), and discussion section participation (20%).

Texts required: Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning Custom Publishing; Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press; Wilkins, Roy with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo.

MUEN 2690,3090,4690- Performance in Africa (4)

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

Tues./Thurs 5:15-7:15PM

By audition first day of class, no experience expected; A practical, hands-on course focusing on the singing, drumming, and dance from West Africa (Ewe Ghana/Togo) and Central African Republic (BaAka).

PLAP 3340 - Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in American Politics (3)

Instructor: Vesla Weaver

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-6:00PM

PLCP 2120 Politics of Developing Areas (3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Mon./Weds. 9:00-9:50AM

PLCP 4810 - The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Mon. 3:30-6:00PM

Studies the government and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Includes the colonial experience and the rise of African nationalism; the transition to independence; the rise and fall of African one-party states; the role of the military in African politics; the politics of ethnicity, nation- and state-building; patromonialism and patron-client relations; development problems faced by African regimes, including relations with external actors; and the political future of Southern Africa. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Africa; not open to students who have taken PLCP 381.

PSYC 4870 - The Minority Family (3)

Instructor: Melvin Wilson

Mon. 9:00-11:30AM

Examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing 'deficit' and 'strength' research paradigms. Prerequisite: PSYC 306 and at least one course from each of the following groups: PSYC 210, 215 or 230, and PSYC 240, 250 or 260, and students in the Afro-American and African studies or studies in women and gender programs.

RELA 3900/RELI 3900 - Islam in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45PM

This course offers an historical and topical introduction to Islam in Africa. After a brief overview of the central features of the Muslim faith, our chronological survey begins with the introduction of Islam to North Africa in the 7th century. We will trace the transmission of Islam via traders, clerics, and jihads to West Africa. We shall consider the medieval Muslim kingdoms; the development of Islamic scholarship and the reform tradition; the growth of Sufi brotherhoods; and the impact of colonization and de-colonization upon Islam. Our overview of the history of Islam in East Africa will cover: the early Arab and Asian mercantile settlements; the flowering of classical Swahili courtly culture; the Omani sultanates and present-day Swahili society as well as recent "Islamist" movements in the Sudan and other parts of the East African interior.
Readings and classroom discussions provide a more in-depth exploration of topics encountered in our historical survey. Through the use of ethnographical and literary materials, we will explore questions such as the translation and transmission of the Qur'an, indigenization and religious pluralism; the role of women in African Islam; and African Islamic spirituality. Midterm, final, short paper, participation in discussion.

RELC 2559 - Pentecostalism (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15

This course will study the history, theology, and practices of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian movement in the world, from its origins among poor whites and recently freed African Americans to its phenomenal expansion in places like South America, Asia, and Africa. We will explore Pentecostalism’s theological and historical relationship to the Methodist, Holiness, Apostolic, and Charismatic movements, as well as Pentecostal belief in phenomena like speaking in tongues, healings, miracles, and prophecy. During the course of the semester, we will ask how Pentecostalism has come to encompass one in every four Christians worldwide in the space of little over a century. Finally, the course will use race, class, and gender analysis to evaluate the cultural influences and future trajectory of Pentecostalism in the US and elsewhere in the world.

RELC 3559 - African-Americans and the Bible (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Tues. 3:30-6:00PM

RELG 2700 - Festivals of the Americas (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM

Combined with AAS 2700

By reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicity.

RELG 3360 - Religions in the New World(3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15

A history course which examines Latin American and Caribbean religions from the 1400s through the 1830s. We will proceed topically (in rough chronological order), studying religious encounters during the pre-Columbian era, the Spanish conquest and colonial eras, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Latin American independence (1820s), and slave emancipation in the anglophone Caribbean (1830s). The class will focus primarily upon the signature religious episodes, devotions, personalities and institutions of indigenous, African, Afro-creole, and mestizo communities, since these "gente de color" constituted the majority population in the New World during this historical epoch. We will consider issues of historiography?specifically, the problem of interpreting (sometimes hostile) extant archival sources and the use of such primary material in the writing of secondary literature. Students will develop their abilities to evaluate primary sources (in translation), and to identify the interpretive choices which scholars make in the crafting of historical narratives

SOC 3410 - Race & Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Weds. 2:00-2:50PM

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4100 - Sociology of the African American Community (3)

Instructor: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15PM

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a clear more comprehensive understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the AfricanAmerican community. Emphasis will be placed on salient contemporary public issues as well as on the historical role of the AfricanAmerican Community within urban society and on the need for students to obtain knowledge of their cultural history. The course will approach these topics from a framework of analysis with consideration for AfricanAmerican people sociological and historical relationship to the political and economic system in America. By means of discussions, lectures, videos, reading and class presentation as well as written assignments, this course will provide new insights and perspectives into the dynamic of the AfricanAmerican community.

SOC 4870 - Immigration (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Weds. 4:20-5:45PM

This course examines contemporary immigration into the United States from the point of view of key theoretical debates and historical circumstances that have shaped current American attitudes toward immigration.

SWAG 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in the Media (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon. 6:30-9:00PM

This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of "Blackness" in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. We will explore how different media, including feature films, popular television, documentaries, popular fiction, television, and print news media create categories of race and gender in different ways for (different) Americans – each media encapsulating its own markers of legitimacy and expertise – each negotiating its own ideas of authorship and audience. We will concentrate on the particular ways various media produce, display, and disseminate information; in particular, we will be analyzing cultural texts, the cultural environment in which they have been produced, and the audience reception of those texts. Finally, we will ask what responsibilities those who create and circulate information have – and whether or not the consuming/viewing public shares in any sort of responsibility. This class will enable students to cultivate theoretical tools and critical perspectives to analyze and question the influence of the popular media that saturate our lives.

AAS 1020 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies II

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45, Wilson Hall 301

AAS 3250 - Motherlands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty(3)

Instructor: Kendra Hamilton

Mon/Wed. 11:00-11:50, Clark Hall 101

AAS 3500-1 Intermediate Seminar in African American & African Studies(3)

Instructor: Barbara Boswell

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Bryan Hall 330

AAS 3559-1 African Worlds in Biography (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Thurs 3:30-6:00, 521 New Cabell Hall

AAS 3359-2 Black Protest Narrative (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 2006 Mcleod Hall

AAS 3359-3 M.L. King's Political Thought (3)

Instructor: Justin Rose

Tues/Thurs. 2:00-3:15, 215 Wilson Hall

AAS 3359-4 Insiders & Outsiders in Africa (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Wed. 3:30-6:00, 345 New Cabell Hall

AAS 3359 - 5 Popular Cultures in Black Atlantic (3)

Instructor: Tyler Fleming

Mon. 3:30-6:00, 141B Wilson Hall

AAS 4080 -Thesis (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

TBA

AAS 4501 -Black Power (4)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues. 3:30-6:00PM, 341 Nau Hall

Combined with HIUS 4501-8

Over the course of the semester, students will examine the dynamic ways people of African descent in the United States have struggled for cultural, economic, and political empowerment within the context of a white supremacist culture. Much of the class will focus on the 1960s and the 1970s; however, previous and subsequent periods will also be analyzed. Students should leave this class with not only a broader knowledge of “Black Power” as a cultural, political, and ideological movement, but also with a more nuanced understanding of the research methods and interpretive frameworks utilized by historians, as well as other social scientists, interested in Black Power in particular and the Black freedom struggle in general. Students will also have the opportunity to further develop their research skills and techniques through a series of assignments designed to assist them in identifying research topics and questions, interpreting primary and secondary texts, and substantiating arguments with “sound” evidence.

It bears mentioning that this course will devote significant attention to the local dimension of Black Power by engaging student activism on UVA’s campus between 1968 and 1984. Significant attention will be given to students’ fight for a Black Studies department at UVA, their massive demonstrations against racial apartheid in South Africa, and their general struggle to make the University a more egalitarian place.

AAS 4570 -That's Ghetto! Blackness and the Modern American City (3)

Instructor: Kwame Holmes

Tues. 3:30PM - 6:00PM, 543 New Cabell Hall

AAS 4570 - Popular Cultures Black Atlantic (3)

Instructor: Tyler Fleming

Mon. 3:30-6:00, 141B Wilson Hall

AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

AMST 2220 - Race Identity and American Visual (4)

Instructor: Carmenita Higginbotham

Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 141 Nau Hall

ANTH 2156 - People and Cultures of Africa(3)

Instructor: Ivan Hultin

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:20, G0048 Ruffner Hall

DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)

Instructor: Theresa Davis

Tues./Thurs., 2:00-3:15PM, Drama Education Bld. 217

This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENAM 3559 - Black Protest Narrative(3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 2006 Mcleod Hall

ENCR 4500- Race in American Places(3)

Instructor: Kenrick Grandison

Mon. 6:30-9:00AM, 242 Gibson Hall

ENLT 2547-001- Black Migrations (3)

Instructor: Sonya Donaldson

Mon/Wed. 5:00-6:00, 102 Dell1

ENLT 2547-002 - Black Women Writes (3)

Instructor: Jean Franziro

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 242 Nau Hall

HIAF 2002 - Modern Africa (4)

Instructor: John Mason

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Claude Moore Nursing Edu. G010

HIAF 2002 explores the history of Africa from the decline of the Atlantic slave trade, in the early nineteenth century, to the present. Our goal is to examine the historical roots of the continent's present condition. We look at the slave trade and its consequences, the European conquest of most of the African continent, African resistance to colonial rule, and the reestablishment of African independence.

We will concentrate on three regions: West Africa, especially Nigeria; Central Africa, especially the Congo and Rwanda; and southern Africa, especially South Africa. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which colonialism affected ordinary Africans and to the various strategies that Africans employed to resist, subvert, and accommodate European domination.

HIAF 2002 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history. There will be two blue book exams--a mid-term and a final--and periodic quizzes on the readings.

HIUS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

Tues. 3:30-5:30PM, New Cabell Hall 138

This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities and consequences of the southern civil rights movement from 1900 to the mid-‘1960s. The movement, largely composed of grass-roots unknowns, was based on a culture of resistance instilled by racially restrictive laws and customs institutionalized by the resistant white South following the demise of Reconstruction. By employing a variety of tactics, at the end of the ‘60s decade, it had won impressive victories against state-sanctioned discrimination. Readings, lectures and videos will be the basis for the final examination. Students will be required to write two short papers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the two papers (25% each), the final examination (30%), and discussion section participation (20%).

Texts required: Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning Custom Publishing; Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press; Wilkins, Roy with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo.

HIUS 4501 - Black Power (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues. 3:30-6:00, 341 Nau Hall

MUEN 3690 - African Music & Dance Ensemble Level 2

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

Tues./Thurs. 5:00-7:15, 107 Old Cabell Hall

MUEN 3690 - African Music & Dance Ensemble Level 3

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

Tues./Thurs 5:00-7:15, 107 Old Cabell Hall

Musi 2120 - History of Jazz Music

Instructor: Scott Deveaux

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 209 Maury Hall

Musi 3090 Performance in Africa

Instructor: Elizabeth Sapir

Tues/Thurs. 4:00-4:50, 107 Old Cabell Hall

PLAP 3700 - Racial Politics(3)

Instructor: Lynn Sanders

Mon/Wed. 11:00-11:50, 101 Nau Hall

RELA 2850 - Afro-Creole Religions in Americas (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 211 Gibson Hall

RELG 2260 - Religion, Race and Relationship in Film (3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Mon/Wed, 141 Gilmer Hall

This course will explore themes of religion, race, and relationship to the religious or racial "other" in films from the silent era to the present. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these images can be interpreted. The films selected all deal with issues of race, religion, gender, and relationship, and ask the ultimate question, "How should we treat one another?"

SOC 3410 - Race & Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, New Cabell Hall 122

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4100 Sociology of African - American Community

Instructor: Hephzibah Strinic-Pawl

Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45, 242 Nau Hall

AAS1010 Introduction to African-American and African Studies I (4)

Instructor:

Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:45

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1850s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; and the rise of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first section provides an overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impacts on Africa. The second section centers on Latin America (Brazil and Cuba) and the French Caribbean - Haiti. The last section deals with North America, tracing the history of slavery from the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Course requirements include regular attendance and three written exams.

AAS 2700 Festivals of the Americas (3)

Combined with RELG 2700

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

By reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicity.

AAS 3000 Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cindy Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course examines women's religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

AAS 3200 Martin, Malcolm and America (3)

Combined with RELG 3200

Instructor: Mark Hadley

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism.

AAS 3280 Reading the Black College Campus (3)

Instructor: Ian Kendrich Grandison

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45

Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs.

AAS 3500-001 Black Protest Narrative (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art (fiction, autobiography, film) from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, and black gay/lesbian liberation movements. We explore the media, forms, and theories of modern protest movements, how they shaped and have been shaped by literature and film. What does it mean to lodge a protest in artistic form? What is the relation between political protest and aesthetic form? Some themes include lynching, segregation, sharecropping, anti-Semitism, black communism, migration, urbanization, religion (including Nation of Islam), crime and policing, normative and queer sexualities, war and military service, cross-racial coalitions, and the role of the individual in social change. Some major works include Richard Wright’s Native Son, Angelo Herndon’s Let Me Live, Ann Petry’s The Street, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Stride toward Freedom, Alice Walker’s Meridian, Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time, and Audre Lorde’s Zami, as well as pertinent readings in history, literary criticism, journalism, and sociology. We’ll study the cross-over film No Way Out, the black exploitation film Superfly, and black independent films Killer of Sheep and Tongues Untied. Requirements include heavy reading schedule, midterm, final exam, and reading journal.

AAS 3500-002 Social Science Perspectives on African-American and African Studies (3)

Instructor: Sabrina Pendergrass

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

This course surveys seminal theories, concepts, and texts across the social sciences that contribute to African-American and African Studies. We draw on disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, and epidemiology, and we consider their distinctive, but complementary perspectives on the racial contours of debates about education, health, incarceration, and other social issues.

AAS 3500-003 Framing the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Combined ENAM 3500

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

This multi-media course will survey selected fiction, non-fiction, photography and film from the U. S. Civil Rights Movement. The arc of the course spans the Brown v. Topeka decision (1954) to the emergence of SNCC and the Black Power Movement. Topics for discussion will include the interplay between history and memory, as well as gender, sexuality, and class, in representations of the period; ideologies of black liberation and the tactics of mass protest; the relationship between the movement and mass media industries; debates about race and rights; the politics of race and the fragility of citizenship; the economics of racial oppression and resistance.

AAS 3652 African American History since 1865 (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with various primary and secondary texts, and multimedia, students examine African Americans' endeavors to build strong families and communities, create socially meaningful art, and establish a political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world.

AAS 4070 Directed Reading and Research (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Time: TBA

Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.

AAS 4500 Race, Space and Culture (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison and Marlon Ross

Combined with ENCR 4500

Mon 6:30-9:00

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the spatial implications at work in the theories, practices, and experiences of race, as well as the cultural implications at stake in our apprehensions and conceptions of space. Themes include: 1) the human/nature threshold; 2) public domains/private lives; 3) urban renewal, historic preservation, and the new urbanism; 4) defensible design and the spatial politics of fear; and 5) the cultural ideologies of sustainability. The seminar foregrounds the multidimensionality of space as a physical, perceptual, social, ideological, and discursive phenomenon. This means melding concepts and practices used in the design professions with theories affiliated with race, postcolonial, literary, and cultural studies. We’ll investigate a variety of spaces, actual and discursive, through selected theoretical readings from diverse disciplines (e.g., William Cronon, Patricia Williams, Philip Deloria, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Gloria Anzaldua, Oscar Newman); through case studies (e.g., Indian reservations, burial grounds, suburban homes, gay bars, national monuments); and through local site visits. Requirements include a midterm and final exam, one site visit response paper, and a major team research project and presentation.
AAS 4570 What's Love Got to do with it? (3)

Instructor: Kwame Holmes

Wed 3:30-6:00

This research seminar explores the way popular assumptions about "normal" gender roles and sexualities have both shaped African American history, determined the encounter of black and white in the United States and remain central to the construction of black identity. Central questions this course will explore include: How have race and sexuality been socially constructed alongside one another in the United States? How have desire and intimacy become commodified and politicized through the prism of race? Topical concerns that will be addressed include: Is marriage for white people and if so, does that matter? What is the relationship between "black" and "gay" identity and social movements in the United States? What are the politics of inter and intra-racial relationships? This course will begin with a month of theoretical readings on the construction of race and sexuality in the United States. From there, we will analyze a range of primary sources from the period of enslavement to the modern era. Students will be expected to write a 20 page research paper on a topic of their choosing related to the interaction of race, gender and sexuality in North America.

AMST 2220 - Race, Identity and American Studies Visual Culture

Instructor: Carmenita Higginbotham

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45, Bryan Hall 235

This course surveys the role that visual culture played in constructing racial and ethnic identities in the United States from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Debates about immigration, nationalism, labor and urbanism will be explored through an examination of critical texts and images (including advertisements, cartoons, films, paintings and photographs.) Importantly, the course will encourage students to engage with theoretical, ideological and aesthetic concerns regarding ethnicity, race, class and gender across media.

ARTH 2745 - African American Art

Intructor: Carmenita Higginbotham

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

This course surveys the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints, mixed media and textiles) produced by those of African descent in the United States from the Colonial period to the present. Presented both chronologically and thematically, the class interrogates issues of artistic identity, gender, patronage and the aesthetic influences of the African Diaspora and European and Euro-American aesthetics on African American artists.

DRAM 307 - African-American Theatre

Instructor: Theresa Davis

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

Presents a comprehensive study of ‘Black Theatre’ as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

ENLT 2547 Black Writers in America: Literature of Civil Rights

Instructor: Audrey Golden

Restricted to 1st and 2nd Year Students

Tues/Thurs 5:00-6:15

This course will examine the relationship between the literary and legal texts of the American Civil Rights movement. We will begin with W.E.B. DuBois’ and Booker T. Washington’s writings, appearing soon after the United States Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). We will ask how these early texts inform the thinking behind such seminal novels as Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), both appearing in the Jim Crow era. We will then put these early novels in conversation with the 1950s and 1960s political writings of the Civil Rights movement. Looking at these literary materials in conjunction with excerpts from legal documents and related theoretical texts, this course will examine the ways in which literature has shaped Black personhood before the law, the literary mechanisms for imagining equal rights in the first half of the twentieth century, and the ways in which the aims of literature and law may (or may not) have coincided with the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The later part of this course then will consider both the literary and legal ramifications of “Civil Rights” in America and will question the role that post-1964 literature may play in imagining civil rights remedies for cases in which the law has proven limited. Likely literary and political texts will include those of W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Anthony Grooms. Requirements will include three papers, several short response papers, and a final exam.

ENEC 3120 - Sensibility, Slavery, and Revolution

Instructor: Brad Pasanek

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

“INDEPENDENCE and SLAVERY are synonymous terms.”
“Reason is and ought only to be a slave to the passions.”
“They say that I am a tyrant. Rather, I am a slave, a slave of Liberty.”

ENEC 3120 is a survey of the transatlantic literature of slavery and revolution published in the late eighteenth century. The three sentiments set out above — the first American, the second British, the third French — begin to illustrate paradoxical relations of mastery, servitude, tyranny, and rebellion in the period. The Enlightenment moment is characterized by reform, abolition, and revolt; and the literature of the period participates in this politics. Pleasures, profits, and violence mark vertices in the triangular exchanges between Europe, Africa, and America; discussion will consider how the literal trade in slaves and sugar figures in literary history. As we investigate a period of English literature traditionally labeled “The Age of Sensibility” or “The Age of Johnson,” we will read mainly prose (some fiction but also political pamphlets and biography) and poetry. Course requirements: weekly reading assignments, two papers, and a final.

ENMC 4500 African-American Drama

Instructor: Lotta Löfgren

Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45

We will survey African-American drama from the 1950's to the present. We will place the drama in relation to established norms, investigating the motives and methods of the playwrights for carving out new ground. We will examine the shared and divergent concerns of male and female playwrights, their sense of audience, the dilemma of writing as an individual and as a member of a group silenced too long, their relationship to the past, the present, and the future. We will also examine the changing definitions of the black aesthetic. Playwrights include, among others, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks.

ENAM 3500 Black Protest Narrative

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15

Cross-listed with AAS 3500

This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art (fiction, autobiography, film) from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, and black gay/lesbian liberation movements. We explore the media, forms, and theories of modern protest movements, how they shaped and have been shaped by literature and film. What does it mean to lodge a protest in artistic form? What is the relation between political protest and aesthetic form? Some themes include lynching, segregation, sharecropping, anti-Semitism, black communism, migration, urbanization, religion (including Nation of Islam), crime and policing, normative and queer sexualities, war and military service, cross-racial coalitions, and the role of the individual in social change. Some major works include Richard Wright’s Native Son,Angelo Herndon’s Let Me Live,Ann Petry’s The Street, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Stride toward Freedom, Alice Walker’s Meridian, Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time, and Audre Lorde’s Zami, as well as pertinent readings in history, literary criticism, journalism, and sociology. We’ll study the cross-over film No Way Out, the black independent films Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, and Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied. Requirements include heavy reading schedule, midterm, final exam, and reading journal.

ENAM 3500 Framing the Civil Rights Movement

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Tues/Thurs 12:00-1:15

This multi-media course will survey selected fiction, non-fiction, photography and film from the U. S. Civil Rights Movement. The arc of the course spans the Brown v. Topeka decision (1954) to the emergence of SNCC and the Black Power Movement. Topics for discussion will include the interplay between history and memory, as well as gender, sexuality, and class, in representations of the period; ideologies of black liberation and the tactics of mass protest; the relationship between the movement and mass media industries; debates about race and rights; the politics of race and the fragility of citizenship; the economics of racial oppression and resistance.

ENAM 4814 African-American Women Authors

Instructor: Angela Davis

Tues/Thurs 930-1045

Restricted to English, African-American Studies, Women Studies, Poetry Program majors

We will read several novels and short stories by African American women, examining in particular how the authors portray black women as individuals and in the context of American society. This course requires active class participation, two written responses to readings (each 2 to 3 double spaced typed pages long) and a formal essay (12 to 15 pages long). The reading list is: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls; Toni Morrison, Sula, and Tar Baby; Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble; Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. Prerequisite: The course is first offered to fourth year majors in English, Women's Studies and Afro-American and African Studies.

ENCR 4500 Race, Space and Culture

Instructors: Ian Grandison and Marlon Ross

Mon 6:30-9:00

Cross-listed with AAS 4500

Co-taught by K. Ian Grandison and Marlon Ross, this interdisciplinary seminar examines the spatial implications at work in the theories, practices, and experiences of race, as well as the cultural implications at stake in our apprehensions and conceptions of space. Themes include: 1) the human/nature threshold; 2) public domains/private lives; 3) urban renewal, historic preservation, and the new urbanism; 4) defensible design and the spatial politics of fear; and 5) the cultural ideologies of sustainability. The seminar foregrounds the multidimensionality of space as a physical, perceptual, social, ideological, and discursive phenomenon. This means melding concepts and practices used in the design professions with theories affiliated with race, postcolonial, literary, and cultural studies. We’ll investigate a variety of spaces, actual and discursive, through selected theoretical readings from diverse disciplines (e.g., William Cronon, Patricia Williams, Philip Deloria, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Gloria Anzaldua, Oscar Newman); through case studies (e.g., Indian reservations, burial grounds, suburban homes, gay bars, national monuments); and through local site visits. Requirements include a midterm and final exam, one site visit response paper, and a major team research project and presentation.

ENMC 3500-South African Literature of Apartheid and the Transition

Instructor: Dr. Barbara Boswell

Tu/Thu 12:30– 1:45pm

This survey course critically examines key South African novels in English, noting the ways in which selected writers engaged racial segregation and the growing disenfranchisement of citizens during apartheid. It also highlights the transitional period from apartheid to de-mocracy during the 1990s, investigating new literary forms and traditions generated by the transition to de-mocracy. Focusing on prominent 20th and 21st century South African texts, the course notes how writers have critiqued apartheid, as well as emerging nationalisms and the nation-building projects of post-apartheid South Africa. Novels may include: Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country (1948), J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1989), Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2002), Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998), and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001).

FREN 3046 – African Literatures & Cultures

Instructor: Kandoura Dramé

Tues/Thurs 3:30 – 4:45

This course will explore aspects of African literatures and cultures. It will focus on selected issues of special resonance in contemporary African life. Oral literature and its continuing impact on all other art forms will be explored. Key issues in French colonial policy and its legacy in Africa: language, politics, education, etc. The course will examine the images of the postcolonial state and society as found in contemporary arts, paintings, sculpture, music and cinema. Selections from painters like Cheri Samba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Werewere Liking (Cameroun) and sculptors like Ousmane Sow, including such popular icons as Mamy Wata and forms such as Souwere glass painting; from musicians like Youssou Ndour (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Seigneur Rochereau, Tshala Muana (DRC), Selif Keita (Mali), and Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); from Mande, Peul, and Kabyle oral literatures in French translation; from filmmakers D.D. Mambety, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ngangura Mweze. Visit to National Museum of African Arts depending on availability of funding. The final grade will be based on contributions to discussions, a mid-term exam, two papers and a final exam.

FREN 4743 – Africa in Cinema

Instructor: Kandouira Dramé

Tues/Thurs 11:00 – 12:15

This course is a study of the representation of Africa in American, Western European and African films. It deals with the representations of African cultures by filmmakers from different cultural backgrounds and studies the ways in which their perspectives on Africa are often informed by their own social and ideological positions as well as the demands of exoticism. It also examines the constructions of the African as the "other" and the kinds of responses such constructions have elicited from Africa's filmmakers. These filmic inventions@are analyzed through a selection of French, British, American, and African films by such directors as John Huston, S. Pollack, J-J Annaud, M. Radford, Ngangura Mweze, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Souleymane Cisse, Gaston Kabore, Amadou Seck, Dani Kouyate, Brian Tilley, Jean-Marie Teno on a variety of subjects relative to the image of Africa in cinema. The final grade will be based on one mid-semester paper (select a film by an African filmmaker and provide a sequential reconstruction of the story based on the methods of P. S. Vieyra and of F.Boughédir), a final paper (7-10 pages), an oral presentation and contributions to discussions. Each oral presentation should contribute to the mid-semester paper and to the final research paper. The final paper should be analytical, well documented and written in clear, grammatical French using correct film terminology.

HIAF 2001: Early African History through the Era of the Slave Trade

Instructor: Joseph C. Miller

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

From the mists of the once-dark continent’s unwritten past Early African History draws out Africans’ distinctive strategies and achievements in culture, politics, and economics. Starting broadly at the dawn of history and continuing in greater detail from the millennium before the Present Era, HIAF 2001 follows the sometimes-surprising ways in which village elders, women, merchants, kings, cattle lords, and ordinary farmers pursued meaningful lives with strategies of community that contrast with the materiality and individualism that modern Americans take for granted. The last third of the course examines the interplay of tragedy and ambition in a continent increasingly exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans, until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800. (A second semester of modern African history, HIAF 2002, taught in spring semester, follows subsequent events through twentieth-century colonialism and the post-1960 era of independence and impoverishment.) http://www.virginia.edu/history/node/2410

HIAF 3021: History of Southern Africa

Instructor: John Edwin Mason

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

HIAF 3021 is a lecture and discussion course on the history of southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on the country of South Africa. The course begins with a look at the precolonial African societies of the region, before moving on to a study of conquest, colonialism, the rise and fall of apartheid, and the recent rebirth of African independence.

By the end of the nineteenth century, all of the African peoples of southern Africa had been conquered by European powers and incorporated into Dutch, British, Portuguese, and German colonial empires. Conquest had not come easily. Every society in the region resisted European domination fiercely, sometimes for many decades before being finally defeated. Colonialism and African responses to it dramatically reshaped societies in southern African, transforming political and economic systems, gender and class relations, even religious beliefs. Resistance to colonialism assumed new forms in the twentieth century, as Africans began to bridge ethnic divisions to create multi-ethnic trade unions, churches, political parties, and liberation movements. Particularly in South Africa, African nationalism was influenced by nonracialism, uniting blacks and progressive whites in the ultimately successful struggle against apartheid.

Course materials include biographies, memoirs, fiction, music, and films, as well as academic studies. Students will take periodic quizzes on the readings and write two blue-book exams, a mid-term and a final.

HIAF 4511: Colloquium in African History, "Color and Culture in South Africa and the United States"

Instructor: John Mason

Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45

South Africa and the American South are cousins: instantly recognizable as members of the same family, but with distinctively different personalities. Both countries complex systems of racial domination shaped the politics and cultures of both societies -- for good (for instance, rock & roll) and bad (for instance, slavery). And in both an inter-racial struggle against racial domination gave rise to some of the most important people and events in their histories.

At the same time, the differences between the two countries cannot be ignored. In South Africa blacks constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, and the descendants of European immigrants are a small minority. In the United States, of course, the reverse is true.

The course holds the similarities and differences between the two countries in a creative tension. Through biography, autobiography, film, music, photography, and scholarship, we will look at the ways in which race shaped the lives of South Africans and Americans, both black and white.

HIAF 4511 is designed primarily, but not exclusively, for history majors and fulfills the history department's seminar/colloquium requirement. Students enrolling in the course must have taken at least one course in African history (preferably South Africa) and a course in American history.

HIUS 3471: American Labor History

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15

This course examines the political engagements, labor struggles, and cultural endeavors of the U.S. working class from the end of the Civil War to the present. It chronicles how the lives of the U.S. laboring majority was shaped by the rise of big business during the Gilded Age, the social upheavals of the World War I era, the economic hardships brought about by the Great Depression, the social policies of the New Deal, the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, and continuing debates over the meanings of work, citizenship, and democracy in the United States. A major issue to be explored in our discussions of U.S. working class history will be in the ways in which laboring people have been divided along racial, gender, ethnic, and regional lines.

HIST 4501: Major Seminar, "Sex, Stereotypes, and the Seduction of Africa"

Instructor: Cody Perkins

Tues 3:30-6:00

This course will highlight the diverse historical interpretations of sexualities in African history since 18th-century interactions between Africans and Europeans through the modern AIDS crisis in central and southern Africa. In addition to prominent themes in scholarly literatures, the course aims to enable students to recognize popular stereotypes and myths pertaining to Africans and the African continent as an imagined space. Stereotypes about Africans, the African environment, and sexualities in general will figure prominently in our discussions as we consider how stereotypes are created and what their modern implications might be. We will also consider the diverse meanings Africans placed in sex as a performance of love, companionship, political protest, and community identities. Readings in the first six weeks of the course are intended to expose students to historical interpretations and debates about African sexualities as they consider possible research paper topics.

HIAF 4511: Colloquium in African History, "Color and Culture in South Africa and the United States"

Instructor: John Mason

Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45

South Africa and the American South are cousins: instantly recognizable as members of the same family, but with distinctively different personalities. Both countries complex systems of racial domination shaped the politics and cultures of both societies -- for good (for instance, rock & roll) and bad (for instance, slavery). And in both an inter-racial struggle against racial domination gave rise to some of the most important people and events in their histories.

At the same time, the differences between the two countries cannot be ignored. In South Africa blacks constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, and the descendants of European immigrants are a small minority. In the United States, of course, the reverse is true.

The course holds the similarities and differences between the two countries in a creative tension. Through biography, autobiography, film, music, photography, and scholarship, we will look at the ways in which race shaped the lives of South Africans and Americans, both black and white.

HIAF 4511 is designed primarily, but not exclusively, for history majors and fulfills the history department's seminar/colloquium requirement. Students enrolling in the course must have taken at least one course in African history (preferably South Africa) and a course in American history.

RELA 2750 African Religions(3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Mon/Wed 12:00-12:50

An introductory survey of African religions. The course concentrates on African indigenous religions, but Islam and Christianity are also discussed. Topics include African mythologies and cosmologies, as well as rituals, artistic traditions and spiritualities. We consider the colonial impact on African religious cultures and the dynamics of ongoing religious change in the sub-Sahara.

RELA 5559 New Course in African Relgions: Evangelism in Contemporary Africa(3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Thurs 3:30-6:00

This seminar examines Christian missions in Africa over the past two decades. We consider foreign, faith-based initiatives in Africa, as well as African missionaries in Europe and the U.S. How are missionary efforts being transformed in response to democratization, globalization and a growing awareness of human rights? What is the relationship between evangelism and development, proselytism and humanitarian aid, mission and education today?

RELG 2700 Festivals of the Americas(3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

By reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicity.

RELG 3200 Martin, Malcolm, and America(3)

Instructor: Mark Hadley

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism.

RELG 3360 Religions in the New World(3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

A history course which examines Latin American and Caribbean religions from the 1400s through the 1830s. We will proceed topically (in rough chronological order), studying religious encounters during the pre-Columbian era, the Spanish conquest and colonial eras, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Latin American independence (1820s), and slave emancipation in the anglophone Caribbean (1830s). The class will focus primarily upon the signature religious episodes, devotions, personalities and institutions of indigenous, African, Afro-creole, and mestizo communities, since these "gente de color" constituted the majority population in the New World during this historical epoch. We will consider issues of historiography?specifically, the problem of interpreting (sometimes hostile) extant archival sources and the use of such primary material in the writing of secondary literature. Students will develop their abilities to evaluate primary sources (in translation), and to identify the interpretive choices which scholars make in the crafting of historical narratives.

Instructor: TBA

Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15

Prerequisites: Six credits of sociology or permission of instructor

Study of a comprehensive contemporary understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the African-American community.

WGS 2224 Black Femininities and Masculinities in Media(3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon 6:30-9:00

Combined with MDST
This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of "Blackness" in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender. We will explore how different media, including feature films, popular television, documentaries, popular fiction, television, and print news media create categories of race and gender in different ways for (different) Americans – each media encapsulating its own markers of legitimacy and expertise – each negotiating its own ideas of authorship and audience. We will concentrate on the particular ways various media produce, display, and disseminate information; in particular, we will be analyzing cultural texts, the cultural environment in which they have been produced, and the audience reception of those texts. Finally, we will ask what responsibilities those who create and circulate information have – and whether or not the consuming/viewing public shares in any sort of responsibility. This class will enable students to cultivate theoretical tools and critical perspectives to analyze and question the influence of the popular media that saturate our lives.

WGS 3250: MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty (3)

Instructor: Kendra Hamilton

Tues/Thurs12:30-1:45

This course explores the legacy of the "hidden wounds" left upon the landscape by plantation slavery along with the visionary work of ecofeminist scholars and activists daring to imagine an alternative future. Readings, guest lectures, and field trips illumine the ways in which gender, race, and power are encoded in historical, cultural, and physical landscapes associated with planting/extraction regimes such as tobacco, mining, sugar, and corn. Course satisfies the Global Perspectives requirement.

WGS 3559 – African-American Women in 20th Century Visual Arts(3)

Instructor: Jacqueline Taylor

Mon/Wed/Fri10:00-10:50

Through the 20th century, African‐American women, like their white counterparts, challenged gender constraints on their political, social and economic rights. Unlike their white counterparts, however, black women battled a long history of entrenched racist ideology. From the first moments of encounter, European imperialists appropriated the black body in service of a propaganda of consumption and exploitation. Subjected to the male gaze, women of African descent were imagined as exotic and highly sexualized, or barbaric and hideous, providing evidence in support of white superiority. In the 20th century however, African Americans sought to overturn negative stereotypes of the black female body, replacing them with both real and differently imagined black female identities. This course will explore the ways in which African American women presented themselves and were represented in visual culture from the New Negro to the Black Power Movement and beyond.

AAS1010 Introduction to African-American and African Studies II (4)

Instructor: Kenrick Grandison

Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:45, Wilson 301

AAS 3000 Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cindy Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course examines women's religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

AAS 3456 The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Joseph Hylton

Tues. 6:30-9:30

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism.

AAS 3500-001 Insiders & Outsiders in Africa (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon. 3:30-6:00, New Cabell Hall 415

AAS 3500-002 African Worlds in Biography (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Wed. 3:30-6:00, Maury Hall 113

AAS 3500-003 Race, Culture and Inequality (3)

Instructor: Sabrina Pendergrass

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15, New Cabell Hall 430

AAS 3500-004 Women Writing Africa  (3)

Instructor: Barbara Boswell

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Wilson Hall 235

AAS 3500-005 African American Health Professionals (3)

Instructor: Pamela Reynolds

Tues. 3:30-6:00, Pavilion VII 103

AAS 3500-006 Afrofuturist Fiction (3)

Instructor: Zakiyyah Jacskon

Time: Wed 6:30-9:30, Bryan Hall 334

AAS 3559 Sounds of Blackness (3)

Instructor:Claudrena Harold

Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:45, Glimer Hall 190

AAS 4500 Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues/Thurs 11:00-12:15, Bryan 330

AAS 4570-001 The Black Body in Translation (3)

Tues 3:30-6:00, Wilson Hall 215

AAS 4570-002 Afrofuturist Fiction (3)

Wed 6:30-9:00, Bryan Hall 334

ENAM 3140 Africna American Literature II(3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 8:00-9:15, Gibson Hall 341

ENAM 4500-001 Fictions of Black Identity (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15,  Bryan Hall 330

ENMC 3500-002 Women Writing Africa (3)

Instructor: Barbara Boswell

Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Wilson Hall 235

FREN 3559-001 Caribbean/ African Theatre(3)

Instructor: Stephanie Berard

Wed. 3:30-6:00, Wilson Hall 140

FREN 3570 Africna Oral Traditions(3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15,  Wilson Hall 235

MDST 4559-004 Civil Rights Movement & Media (3)

Mon 3:30-6:00, Bryan Hall  235

PLAP 3820 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties(3)

David Klein

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Studies judical construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations.

PLCP 2120 Politics of Developing Areas (3)

Robert Fatton

Mon./Wed. 9:00-9:50

Surveys patterns of government and politics in non-Western political systems. Topics include political elites, sources of political power, national integration, economic development, and foreign penetration.

PLCP 4500-001 Imperialism and Globalization(3)

Robert Fatton

Thurs. 3:30-6:00

Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative government. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or instructor permission.

RELA 3000 Women and Religion in Africa

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course examines women's religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

RELA 3890 Christianity in Africa(3)

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELC 3890. Prerequisite: A course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.

RELC 3890 Christianity in Africa(3)

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Mon./Wed. 1:00- 1:50

Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELA 3890. Prerequisite: A course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.

RELG 2700, Festivals of the Americas(3)

Jalane Schmidt

Readings will include contemporary ethnographies of religious festivals in the Caribbean ans South, Central, and North America, and increase their knowledge of the concepts of sacred time and space, ritual theory, and the relationships between religious celebration and changing accounts of ethnicity.

RELG 3200, Martin, Malcom and America(3)

Mark Hadley

An analysis of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

RELG 3800, African American Religious History

Valerie Cooper

This course will explore African American religious traditions in their modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current scholarship, worship and praxis. It will examine the religious life and religious institutions of African Americans from their African antecedents to contemporary figures and movements in the US.

SOC 2442 Systems of Inequality

Sabrina Pendergrass

This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person's life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.

SOC 3410 Race and Ethnic Relations

Milton Vickerman

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4420, Sociology of Inequality

Paul Kingston

Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

WGS 3450, Presenting & Representing African American Women in 20th Century Visual Arts

Jacqueline Taylor

Through the twentieth century, African-American women challenged gender constraints on their political, social and economic rights. This course explores the role of the visual arts in reinforcing and countering images of African American women's identity. We will examine women in visual art, architecture, film and popular culture within the context of cultural, political and social change

AAS1010 Introduction to African-American and African Studies I (4)

Instructor:

Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:45

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1850s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; and the rise of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first section provides an overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impacts on Africa. The second section centers on Latin America (Brazil and Cuba) and the French Caribbean - Haiti. The last section deals with North America, tracing the history of slavery from the seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Course requirements include regular attendance and three written exams.

AAS 2700 Festivals of the Americas (3)

Combined with RELG 2700

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45

By reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicity.

AAS 3000 Women and Religion in Africa (3)

Instructor: Cindy Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course examines women's religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

AAS 3200 Martin, Malcolm and America (3)

Combined with RELG 3200

Instructor: Mark Hadley

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy. We will pay particular attention to the religious dimensions of these various types of social criticism.

AAS 3280 Reading the Black College Campus (3)

Instructor: Ian Kendrich Grandison

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45

Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs.

AAS 3500-001 Black Protest Narrative (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art (fiction, autobiography, film) from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, and black gay/lesbian liberation movements. We explore the media, forms, and theories of modern protest movements, how they shaped and have been shaped by literature and film. What does it mean to lodge a protest in artistic form? What is the relation between political protest and aesthetic form? Some themes include lynching, segregation, sharecropping, anti-Semitism, black communism, migration, urbanization, religion (including Nation of Islam), crime and policing, normative and queer sexualities, war and military service, cross-racial coalitions, and the role of the individual in social change. Some major works include Richard Wright’s Native Son, Angelo Herndon’s Let Me Live, Ann Petry’s The Street, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Stride toward Freedom, Alice Walker’s Meridian, Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time, and Audre Lorde’s Zami, as well as pertinent readings in history, literary criticism, journalism, and sociology. We’ll study the cross-over film No Way Out, the black exploitation film Superfly, and black independent films Killer of Sheep and Tongues Untied. Requirements include heavy reading schedule, midterm, final exam, and reading journal.

AAS 3500-002 Social Science Perspectives on African-American and African Studies (3)

Instructor: Sabrina Pendergrass

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

This course surveys seminal theories, concepts, and texts across the social sciences that contribute to African-American and African Studies. We draw on disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, and epidemiology, and we consider their distinctive, but complementary perspectives on the racial contours of debates about education, health, incarceration, and other social issues.

AAS 3500-003 Framing the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Combined ENAM 3500

Tues/Thurs 2:00-3:15

This multi-media course will survey selected fiction, non-fiction, photography and film from the U. S. Civil Rights Movement. The arc of the course spans the Brown v. Topeka decision (1954) to the emergence of SNCC and the Black Power Movement. Topics for discussion will include the interplay between history and memory, as well as gender, sexuality, and class, in representations of the period; ideologies of black liberation and the tactics of mass protest; the relationship between the movement and mass media industries; debates about race and rights; the politics of race and the fragility of citizenship; the economics of racial oppression and resistance.

AAS 3500-004 African Worlds - Life Stories(3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Mon. 3:30-6:00

This course examines an array of African cultural worlds from the perspective of a variety of different life story genres. We will be addressing biography, autobiography, autofiction, memoirs, diaries, biographical documentary film and various artistic representations. Some critics claim that such genres, concentrating on the “individual” in Western terms, are not appropriate for representing African experiences of personhood. While critically examining these genres as well as the authorship of texts, we will also be examining representations of worldviews, social and political structures and organization, conceptualizations of time and space, social change, gender, kinship, ritual, etc. through the lens of each life history. For each life narrative we examine, we will ask what authors are seeking to transmit. Reality? Truth? Or something else? We will also ask what reading audiences expect to receive from such narratives. We will discuss whether the narratives we address are stories expressing the uniqueness of particular individuals or whether they are representative lifeways of members of particular socio-political groups – or both – or neither!

AAS 3500-005 History of the Civil Rights (3)

Instructor: Lynn French

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45

TBA

AAS 3652 African American History since 1865 (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with various primary and secondary texts, and multimedia, students examine African Americans' endeavors to build strong families and communities, create socially meaningful art, and establish a political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world.

AAS 3749 Food Meaning in Africa and the Diaspora (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Tues. 3:30-6:00

This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora -- wherever people of African descent have migrated or have been forced to move. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat or don't eat hold meaning for people within a variety of cultural contexts. Topics will include symbol, taboo, sexuality, bodiesm ritual, kinships and beauty among others.

AAS 4070 Directed Reading and Research (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Time: TBA

Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.

AAS 4500 Race, Space and Culture (3)

Instructor: K. Ian Grandison and Marlon Ross

Combined with ENCR 4500

Mon 6:30-9:00

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the spatial implications at work in the theories, practices, and experiences of race, as well as the cultural implications at stake in our apprehensions and conceptions of space. Themes include: 1) the human/nature threshold; 2) public domains/private lives; 3) urban renewal, historic preservation, and the new urbanism; 4) defensible design and the spatial politics of fear; and 5) the cultural ideologies of sustainability. The seminar foregrounds the multidimensionality of space as a physical, perceptual, social, ideological, and discursive phenomenon. This means melding concepts and practices used in the design professions with theories affiliated with race, postcolonial, literary, and cultural studies. We’ll investigate a variety of spaces, actual and discursive, through selected theoretical readings from diverse disciplines (e.g., William Cronon, Patricia Williams, Philip Deloria, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Gloria Anzaldua, Oscar Newman); through case studies (e.g., Indian reservations, burial grounds, suburban homes, gay bars, national monuments); and through local site visits. Requirements include a midterm and final exam, one site visit response paper, and a major team research project and presentation.

AAS 4570 Black Womanhood and the Politics of the Body (3)

Instructor: Zakiyyah Jackson

Wed. 3:30-6:00

This course examines political and cultural constructions of black women's bodies in the United States. It aims to situate Black women’s literary representations of “the black female body" within the political and historical contexts in which these works are produced. The course will place emphasis on black feminist interventions into legal, scientific, medical, and philosophical constructions of black womanhood, particularly with respect to constructions of black women’s gender and sexuality.

PSYC 4870 The Minority Family: A Psychological Inquiry

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Time & Day: TBA

Description coming.

ANTH 2500 Anthropology of the Caribbean (3)

Instructor: Kristin Lahatte

Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations.

ANTH 3559-001 Food and Meaning in Africa and the Diaspora (3)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Tues.3:30-6:00

This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora -- wherever people of African descent have migrated or have been forced to move. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat or don't eat hold meaning for people within a variety of cultural contexts. Topics will include symbol, taboo, sexuality, bodiesm ritual, kinships and beauty among others.

ANTH 3559-002 (Imagining Africa)

Instructor: Lisa Shutt

Day & Time: TBA

Description coming.

ANTH 3603, Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery (3)

Instructor: Frasier Naiman

Wed. 4:30-7:00

This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org).

ARH 3500 Black Women in the Visual Arts(3)

Jacqueline Taylor

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Topical offerings in architectural history

ARH 3603, Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery (3)

Frasier Naiman

Wed.4:30-7:00

This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery.

DRAM 3070, African American Theatre (3)

Instructo: Theresa Davis

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15

Presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

ENAM 3500-001, Black Protest Narrative(3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15

This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art (fiction, autobiography, film) from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, and black gay/lesbian liberation movements. We explore the media, forms, and theories of modern protest movements, how they shaped and have been shaped by literature and film. What does it mean to lodge a protest in artistic form? What is the relation between political protest and aesthetic form? Some themes include lynching, segregation, sharecropping, anti-Semitism, black communism, migration, urbanization, religion (including Nation of Islam), crime and policing, normative and queer sexualities, war and military service, cross-racial coalitions, and the role of the individual in social change. Some major works include Richard Wright’s Native Son, Angelo Herndon’s Let Me Live, Ann Petry’s The Street, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Stride toward Freedom, Alice Walker’s Meridian, Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time, and Audre Lorde’s Zami, as well as pertinent readings in history, literary criticism, journalism, and sociology. We’ll study the cross-over film No Way Out, the black independent films Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, and Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied. Requirements include heavy reading schedule, midterm, final exam, and reading journal.

ENAM 3500-002 Framing the Civil Rights Movement(3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15

ENAM 5559 Contemporary African American Literature(3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

This seminar uses the concept of time as a foundation for exploring selected works of contemporary African American Literature. Time is a useful representational concept in so far as it allows for a wide-ranging assessment of literary and cultural tropes. Time is a noun and a verb; it is the basis for history. It can be on our side or we can run out of it. It can heal all wounds or it can be a wound itself. These are the types of questions that will be used as a beginning for larger and evolving conversations about the works listed below. The course is also committed to helping students develop their own research agenda through formation of a culminating seminar paper and cultivate pedagogic techniques using the discussion-leading portion.

ENCR 4500-001 Race, Space and Culture (3)

Instructors: Kenrick Ian Grandison & Marlon Ross

Tues. 6:30-9:00

This seminar uses the concept of time as a foundation for exploring selected works of contemporary African American Literature. Time is a useful representational concept in so far as it allows for a wide-ranging assessment of literary and cultural tropes. Time is a noun and a verb; it is the basis for history. It can be on our side or we can run out of it. It can heal all wounds or it can be a wound itself. These are the types of questions that will be used as a beginning for larger and evolving conversations about the works listed below. The course is also committed to helping students develop their own research agenda through formation of a culminating seminar paper and cultivate pedagogic techniques using the discussion-leading portion.

ENCR 4500-002 Race in American Places

Instructor: Kenrick Ian Grandison

Tues./Thurs. 3:30-4:45
 

ENLT 2547-001 Prophets of the Hood (3)

Instructor: Jason Saunders

Mon./Wed. 5:00-6:15

Why do we so often associate black life with urban space? This class will explore how black writers have collaborated, contested, and wrestled with the urbanization of blackness over the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll not just read across genres and artistic forms (i.e. drama, autobiographies, novels, and poems) but through literary movements and historical periods as well. Likely authors include Charles Chestnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Loraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcolm X, John Edgar Wideman, Sapphire, and Jay Z. The course requirements are two five page and one ten page paper, a final exam, and lots of conversation.

ENLT 2547-002 Black Women Writers (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Tues./Thurs. 8:00-9:15

This seminar uses Black women’s writings from mid-century to the present to introduce new English majors to important concepts in literary analysis. To better understand genre, themes, and assorted literary conventions, we will focus closely on a range of literary styles. We will also consider patterns of representation established in the 1950s and watch how they develop, disintegrate, or evolve into the present day. Do certain issues or themes remain important in Black women’s writing of the last fifty years? How has the literature adapted in response to specific cultural or historical moments?

ENLT 2547-003 Black Women Writers (3)

Instructor: Shermaine Jones

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15

Challenging the national boundaries that commonly define literary studies, this course offers a survey of 20th century black women writers to locate a traditionally marginal group at the center of discussions of race, gender, and nation. Students will examine works of African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American women writers through feminist and post-colonial frameworks. We will not only examine the similarities and thematic commonalities in these works but also the differences due to distinctive historical, spatial, and cultural imperatives. Central concerns of the course include: sexuality, motherhood, violence against women, resistance, identity, and family. While novels are the primary text in this course, we will also explore poetry, drama, and film.

FREN 3585-001 Francophone Caribbean (3)

Instructor: Stephanie Berard

Mon./Wed. 5:00-6:15

Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture and society. Topics vary annually and may include literature and history, cinema and society, and cultural anthropology. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

FREN 3585-002, North African Literature and Culture (3)

Instructor: Majida Bargach

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture and society. Topics vary annually and may include literature and history, cinema and society, and cultural anthropology. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

HIAF 2001 Early African History (3)

Instructor: Joseph Miller

Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45

Studies the history of African civilizations from the iron age through the era of the slave trade, ca. 1800. Emphasizes the search for the themes of social, political, economic, and intellectual history which present African civilizations on their own terms.

HIAF 3021 History of Southern Africa (3)

Instructor: John Mason

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:20

Studies the history of Africa generally south of the Zambezi River. Emphasizes African institutions, creation of ethnic and racial identities, industrialization, and rural poverty, from the early formation of historical communities to recent times.

HIUS 3652 African American History since 1865 (3)

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

Studies the history of black Americans from the Civil War to the present.

PLAP 3820, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties(3)

Instructor: David Klein

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Studies judicial construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations.

PLCP 2120, Politics of Developing Areas(3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Mon./Wed. 9:00-9:50

Surveys patterns of government and politics in non-Western political systems. Topics include political elites, sources of political power, national integration, economic development, and foreign penetration.

PLCP 4500-001 Imperialism and Globalization(3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

Thurs. 3:30-6:00

Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative government. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or instructor permission.

RELA 3000 Women and Religion in Africa(3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Tues./Thurs. 12:30-1:45

This course examines women's religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

RELA 3890 Christianity in Africa(3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Mon./Wed. 1:00-1:50

Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELC 3890. Prerequisite: A course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.

RELC 3890 Christianity in Africa(3)

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Mon./Wed. 1:00-1:50

Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELA 3890. Prerequisite: A course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.

RELG 2700, Festivals of the Americas (3)

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Tues./Thur. 9:30-10:45

Readings will include contemporary ethnographies of religious festivals in the Caribbean ans South, Central, and North America, and increase their knowledge of the concepts of sacred time and space, ritual theory, and the relationships between religious celebration and changing accounts of ethnicity.

RELG 3200, Martin, Malcom and America(3)

Insrtructor: Mark Hadley

Tues./Thurs.9:30-10:45

An analysis of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

RELG 3800, African American Religious History(3)

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

Tues./Thurs. 2:00-3:15

This course will explore African American religious traditions in their modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current scholarship, worship and praxis. It will examine the religious life and religious institutions of African Americans from their African antecedents to contemporary figures and movements in the US.

SOC 2442 Systems of Inequality(3)

Instructor: Sabrina Pendergrass

Tues./Thurs. 10:00-10:45

This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person's life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.

SOC 3410 Race and Ethnic Relations (3)

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

SOC 4420, Sociology of Inequality (3)

Instructor: Paul Kingston

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

WGS 3450, Presenting & Representing African American Women in 20th Century Visual Arts (3)

Instructor: Jacqueline Taylor

Mon./Wed. 2:00-3:15

Through the twentieth century, African-American women challenged gender constraints on their political, social and economic rights. This course explores the role of the visual arts in reinforcing and countering images of African American women's identity. We will examine women in visual art, architecture, film and popular culture within the context of cultural, political and social change.