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AFST 102 Sports and the Black Experience 6 credits
With an emphasis on critical reading and writing in an academic context, this course will examine the role of sports in American politics and social organizations. The course pays attention to the African American experience, noting especially the confluence of race and sports. What can sports tell us about freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness? How has the Black community contributed to our appreciation of these American virtues? We will read short texts and biographies, and we will watch movies such as King Richard and The Blind Side. Students will produce short writing exercises aimed at developing their critical thinking and clear writing.
Not available to students who took AFST 100 Fall 2024 and Fall 2023.
- Winter 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Not open to students who have taken AFST 100 Sports and the Black Experience and the American Dream.
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AFST 113 Introduction to Africana Studies 6 credits
This course is designed for first and second-year students who are interested in learning about the experiences, movements, and perspectives of various African-descendant peoples. In addition, we will cover the history of how Black Studies entered the contemporary university, and how the university responded to its arrival. We will explore topics in Black history; Black expressive cultures; Black religion & spirituality; Black social thought (like Black feminism and critical race theory); Black economic & labor history; Black political theory; and critical university studies. No prior knowledge is assumed nor required.
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AFST 113.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jorge Banuelos š« š¤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 meaningsĀ will be considered through aĀ range of topics:Ā skin color stratification,Ā nationalism, migration and citizenship, education, popular culture and media, spatial segregationĀ and others.Ā 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.Ā Ā
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 š« š¤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 126 Black Freedom: Reconstruction to #BlackLivesMatter 6 credits
This course analyzes Black Freedom activism, its goals, and protagonists from Reconstruction until today. Topics include the evolution of racial segregation and its legal and de facto expressions in the South and across the nation, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Black activism in the New Deal era, the effects of World War II and the Cold War, mass activism in the 1950s and 1960s, white supremacist resistance against Black rights, Black Power activism and Black Internationalism, the “War on Drugs,” racialized welfare state reforms, and police brutality, the election of Barack Obama, and the path to #BlackLivesMatter today.
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HIST 126.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann š« š¤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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