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AFST 210 Blackness and Whiteness Outside the United States 6 credits
This course examines blackness and whiteness as constructs outside the U.S. Racial categories and their meanings will be considered through a range of topics: skin color stratification, nationalism, migration and citizenship, education, popular culture and media, spatial segregation and others. Central to the course will be considering how racism and anti-blackness vary across societies, as well as the transnational and global flows of racial ideas and categories. Examples will be drawn from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
Not available to students who took AFST 100 Fall 2023 or AFST 120.
Previously offered as AFST 120.
- Winter 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Not open to students who have taken AFST 100 Blackness and Whiteness Outside of the United States or AFST 120.
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AFST 210.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AFST 330 Black Europe 6 credits
This course examines the history and experiences of people of African descent and black cultures in Europe. Beginning with early contacts between Africa and Europe, we examine the migration and settlement of African people and culture, and the politics and meaning of their identities and presence in Europe. Adopting a comparative perspective, we consider how blackness has been constructed in various countries through popular culture, nationalism, immigration policy, and other social institutions. We further consider how religious, gender, and immigrant identities inform notions of blackness. We conclude by examining contemporary Black European social movements.
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AFST 330.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AFST 345 Afro-Latin America in Comparative Perspective 6 credits
This course will focus on overarching themes and theoretical perspectives on contemporary Afro-Latin America. Topics include: political and social change in contemporary Cuba and Brazil and their impact on Afrodescendant communities; theories of Black diasporic identity and cultural expression; theories of race, nation, and ethnicity; gender and class; social inequality.
Participation in the OCS program Afrodescendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil.
- Fall 2025
- SI, Social Inquiry
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Afro-descendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil Program.
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LTAM 101 Elementary Portuguese 6 credits
Elementary Portuguese introduces students to Brazilian Portuguese, emphasizing communicative competence in real contexts. Instruction is conducted in the target language as much as possible. Vocabulary and grammar are taught in context. Instruction pays attention to the cultural information in relevant contexts of communication. The main learning/teaching styles used include role plays, prepared presentations, interactive lectures, classroom conversations, and dramatization. Student assessment is continuous, and includes classroom participation, homework, written exams and oral exams.
Participation in Afro-descendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil OCS program.
- Fall 2025
- No Exploration
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Afro-descendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil Program.
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SOAN 283 Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging in the U.S. 6 credits
Immigration has been a defining feature of the United States that is tied to legal and cultural forms of citizenship, and more broadly, to questions of belonging. This course explores these three concepts through multiple aspects of immigration, including the migration experience, immigration policy, community, education, culture, and others, for both immigrants and the children of immigrants. Special attention is given to how differences among immigrants—such as race, gender, class, national origin, and others—matter in all of these areas. These questions and issues are explored through academic readings, popular and public discourse, immigrant voices, and civic engagement in local communities.
The department strongly recommends that 110 or 11 be taken prior to enrolling in courses number 200 or above.
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SOAN 283.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 287 Afrodescendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil: Afro-Descendant Identities and Society 6 credits
This course will examine Afro-descendant identities through local and site-based topics, including political and social history of race and blackness; urban spaces and neighborhoods; Afro-descendant communities in the economy and education system; community organizing and social movements; representation and commemoration; music, dance, and cultural expression. Topics will be based on expertise of host country lecturers and community specialists.
Participation in the OCS program Afrodescendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil
- Fall 2025
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Afro-descendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil Program.
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SOAN 400 Integrative Exercise
Senior sociology/anthropology majors fulfill the integrative exercise by writing a senior thesis on a topic approved by the department. Students must enroll in six credits to write the thesis, spread as the student likes over Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. The process begins with the submission of a topic statement in the preceding spring term and concludes with a public presentation in spring of the senior year. Please consult the Sociology and Anthropology website for a full description.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- No Exploration
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Student is a Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) major AND has Senior Priority.