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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with AFST Core · returned 6 results
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AFST 100 Blackness and Whiteness Outside the United States 6 credits
Racial categories such as “black” and “white” are social constructions that change across national boundaries. In the U.S. “black” and “white” have historically been defined by ancestry, and have been mutually exclusive. But how are these categories defined elsewhere? In this course, we consider how blackness and whiteness are defined and constructed in non-U.S. contexts. We examine a range of topics that will help us to understand not only racial categories, but also the meanings and narratives that accompany them and the way that these play into racial inequalities. Course topics include skin color stratification, colorblindness, ethnicity and nationhood, migration and citizenship, media representations, segregation, and transnationalism and globalization.
Held for new first year students
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AFST 100.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AFST 100 Sports, the Black Experience, and the American Dream 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.
Held for new first year students
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AFST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 8:15am-10:00am
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AFST 113 Introduction to Africana Studies 6 credits
This survey course introduces students to the content and contours of Africana Studies as a field of study–its genealogy, antecedents, development, and future challenges. The course focuses on historic and contemporary experiences of African-descended peoples, particularly in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. We will also give some attention to how members of the Diaspora remember and encounter Africa, and to how Africans respond to the history of enslavement, colonialism, apartheid, racism and globalization.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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AFST 113.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 113.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AFST 113.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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AFST 115 Black Heroism in the Diaspora and Early America 6 credits
This course examines motifs of Black Heroism throughout the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Early America. We take an interdisciplinary and Black Studies approach to topics like slave life and maroonage, freedom suits, military enlistment, and more. The course material will include fiction like Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave as well as theoretical texts like Neil Roberts Freedom as Maroonage. The aim of the course is to provide a look at the multifacted lives of Black people in the diaspora and early America with an emphasis on complex and quotidian resistance to domination.
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AFST 115.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 120 Race and Racism Outside the U.S. 6 credits
In this course, we examine the ways that race structures difference and inequality in non-U.S. contexts with varying degrees of racial “diversity.” As a construct fundamentally grounded in white supremacy through encounters between Europe and its “Others,” race from its inception has been a global construct for organizing and stratifying human difference. Yet the specific ways that race is constructed varies across societies, with ethnicity and other related concepts of difference substituting for race. Foundational to this course will be how the notions of blackness and whiteness figure into the creation of racial categories, boundaries, and inequalities. Course topics include skin color stratification, “colorblindness,” ethnicity and nationhood, migration and citizenship, media representations, anti-blackness as a global phenomenon, transnational and global flows of racial ideas and categories, and social movements for racial justice.
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 120.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 220 Color, Class, and Status in Black America 6 credits
As a racial category and identity, “Black” is often treated in a homogenous, monolithic way, obscuring the internal diversity and inequality within the black population in the U.S. In this course, we consider the inequalities within black communities and the black population living in the U.S., historically and through to the present. “Colorism,” or skin tone stratification, represents one status linked to class and ranking in society; but does colorism matter more than other statuses to class? Class differences are in fact profound within black communities, and they are correlated to multiple social statuses–skin tone, immigrant status, national origin, and even political orientation. We will examine how these status, color, and class interact, and how they shape class relations and tensions, lived experience, and notions of authenticity (“blackness”) in everday life and popular culture. Course topics include the Black middle class; education; neighborhood segregation; gender and sexuality; and media representations and popular culture.
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AFST 220.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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