Introduction to Africana Studies
 
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Course Number:
AAS 150
Credits:
3
Professor:
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of Africana Studies (comprising Africa and the African diaspora). Through an examination of social movements, intellectual work, and artistic creation, we shall examine the emergence and development of the cultural, political, historical, psychological and economic dimension of the diverse experiences of Africans and people of African descent.
We shall consider the construction and expression of Black identity as expressed through literature, history, politics and the arts. A focus of the course will be how Africana Studies shapes the study of education, literature, law, or art and the influence of some of the great Black leaders.
The final section of the course will focus on African-American music (especially the female Blues singers) and Black visual culture.