*Afro-American Studies 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1269
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students wishing to enroll must petition the Head Tutor for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project.
*Afro-American Studies 97a (formerly Afro-American Studies 11). Jazz, Race, and Politics Since WWII
Catalog Number: 1439 Enrollment: Limited to Afro-American Studies concentrators and others by permission of the instructor.
Ingrid Monson
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course addresses the relationship between music and politics after WWI, with emphasis on the impact of Civil Rights Movement and African independence on the aesthetics and politics of jazz. Segregation in the music industry, activism among musicians, and the international significance of jazz and popular music are among the topics addressed. The development of both listening skills and frameworks for social analysis will be intertwined as we explore various postwar musical developments.
*Afro-American Studies 97b (formerly Afro-American Studies 12). Topics in Afro-American History and Society: Seminar
Catalog Number: 2393 Enrollment: Limited to Afro-American Studies concentrators, and others by permission of instructor.
Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course introduces topics in Afro-American society and history by focusing on a general theme—changing concepts of blackness. Using a wide range of empirical and theoretical materials, we problematize what constitutes “race” and “blackness.” We explore issues of class division, regional variation, immigration, intermarriage, sexuality and gender, the social conditions which give rise to such formations, and their relation to political and cultural constructions of blackness.
*Afro-American Studies 98. Tutorial
Catalog Number: 6272
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and members of the tutorial staff
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students wishing to enroll must petition the Head Tutor for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project.
Prerequisite: Completion of Afro-American Studies 10, or a substitute course approved by the Head Tutor.
*Afro-American Studies 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 8654 Enrollment: Limited to honors candidates.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Thesis supervision under the direction of a member of the Department.
Afro-American Studies 118. African-American History from the Slave Trade to 1900
Catalog Number: 7429
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to African American history and the role black men and women have played in the cultural, economic, and political life of the United States. Topics will include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of slavery; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the struggle for freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction; and African Americans in the age of segregation and disenfranchisement.
Afro-American Studies 119. The Age of Jim Crow
Catalog Number: 6246
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This seminar explores a time when racial segregation was the rule of law. We will explore the rise of Jim Crow beginning in the late nineteenth century and follow its implications and consequences for black and white Americans until the 1950s when the assault on segregation was successfully waged. The course will examine a number of themes, such as the legal process, disfranchisement, violence, arts and entertainment, and scientific racism, but we will also study the institutions, leaders, and ideologies that enabled Americans as individuals and as a group to advance despite the obstacles.
[Afro-American Studies 121. The Tragic, The Comic, and The Political]
Catalog Number: 2170
Cornel West
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This seminar will examine the complex tragic, comic, and political responsses to the problem of evil—unjustified suffering and underserved harm— through the distinctive and neglected medium of dramatic art. We shall begin with Sophocle’s Antigone, Dante’s Inferno, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Then we will plunge into the terrifying night-side of modernity by wrestling with the great works of Kant, Hume, Dostoevsky, (Nathaniel) West, Kafka, Ibsen, Chekhov, Williams, ONeill, Lorca, Hansberry, Brecht, Beckett, Hwang, Jones, and Soyinka.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Formerly offered as Divinity School 2451.
[Afro-American Studies 123z. American Democracy]
Catalog Number: 2354
Cornel West and Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Law School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Considers, in an American setting, the contemporary meaning of the democratic idea, the relation of democratic government to the market economy as well as to the class, gender and racial divisions of society, and the alternative institutional futures of democracy. Two focal points for the argument of the course are: 1) the exploration of possible, more democratizing arrangements for the organization of government, the economy, and civil society, and 2) the changes in consciousness, culture, and education needed to sustain such arrangements. Seeing American problems and possibilities as variations on worldwide themes, the course asks what it would mean to sacrifice American “exceptionalism” to American experimentalism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Additional discussion hour scheduled weekly. Offered jointly with the Law School as 30500-11.
[Afro-American Studies 124. Constructions of Identity]
Catalog Number: 3341
K. Anthony Appiah
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the debates about the social construction of race, gender, and sexuality. After exploring some work on gender and on lesbian and gay identities, the course will focus, in particular, on the debates about the interaction between gender and sexuality, on the one hand, and race, on the other. Discussions will center around the claims in political theory for the relevance of these collective identities for conceptions of citizenship and of political life.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Afro-American Studies 124y. Race: A Conceptual Exploration Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4852
K. Anthony Appiah
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Human beings characteristically suppose that we come in various kinds. In classifying people into these kinds, different societies have used different sorts of properties. Beginning in the Enlightenment, European and American thinkers began to divide our species into a number of global kinds, relying more and more on modes of classification that were also applied to other animals. Membership in such global kinds as Negro, Caucasian, Mongoloid, Semitic, or Aryan was increasingly held to explain a very wide range of phenomena. In this course, we shall explore the ways in which these modern racial modes of classification have developed over the last three centuries, and look critically at some of the uses to which they have been put.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Afro-American Studies 125. Philosophical Problems of Race and Racism
Catalog Number: 3822
K. Anthony Appiah
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
“Race” is a central term in political debate, social theory and everyday life in our society. It is widely held to be important in large measure because of the history of what we call “racism” in the United States and more generally, in the modern world. Yet there is little reflection on and no consensus about how either “race” or “racism” should be understood. We shall explore three key questions: How are we to understand the term “race”? What is racism? and Why is racism wrong?
[Afro-American Studies 126. Philosophical Perspectives on Issues of Race]
Catalog Number: 7898 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Tommie Shelby
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Critically examines recent philosophical work on the themes of “race” and racism. Topics for discussion include the following: What is a “race” and do any exist? What does it mean to embrace or reject one’s racial identity? What is racism, and what makes it wrong? How should we, from the point of view of justice, respond to racism and the social problems it causes?
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Afro-American Studies 127. Marxist Theories of Racism
Catalog Number: 3133 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Preference given to Afro-American Studies concentrators.
Tommie Shelby
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Marx himself doesn’t say much about racism. However, many social scientists and historians have attempted to extend Marx’s ideas to explain the phenomena of racial oppression and racial antagonism. This course critically examines several Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts of racial ideology, the construction of racial identities, the relationship between class exploitation and racial subordination, and the role of capitalist development and expansion in perpetuating racial inequality.
Afro-American Studies 128. Black Nationalism
Catalog Number: 3426
Tommie Shelby
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Critically examines the family of African American social philosophies generally classified under the broad rubric “black nationalism.” Topics to be explored include the meaning of black collective self-determination; the relationship between black identity and black solidarity; the role of black cultural expression in black freedom struggles; and the significance of Africa for black nationalist ideals. Authors to be discussed include Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, and some contemporary representatives of the tradition.
Afro-American Studies 130. Harlem Renaissance
Catalog Number: 1261
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the period of unprecedented African-American literary flowering during the 1920s and 1930s. Special attention will be given to the following: Harlem and other cultural centers; dialect in poetry and prose; the impact of women authors, editors, and critics; and the central positioning of the Harlem Renaissance in the African American literary tradition.
Afro-American Studies 131. Afro-American Literature to the 1920s
Catalog Number: 2589
Werner Sollors
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. Additional discussion hour scheduled every Friday at 10:00 a.m. EXAM GROUP: 3
Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Séjour, Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) “Post-bellum, pre-Harlem”: Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson.
Note: Special emphasis on Olaudah Equiano and Charles W. Chestnut.
Afro-American Studies 133. African-Americans in the Civil War Era: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 1090
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
No people had a larger stake in the abolition of slavery in the US than African-Americans. This course will focus on the critical roles they played in the national struggle over the meaning of freedom in the Civil War era. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which antebellum and wartime experiences as men and women, slaves and free people, shaped African American’s aspirations and options in the postemancipation world.
[Afro-American Studies 134y. Memory, Landscape and the African-American]
Catalog Number: 3543
Jamaica Kincaid
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A people will point to a landscape (the ruggedness of mountains, the lushness of their meadowlands,
the mighty flow of a river) to explain their national character. Is this so for the African in America? Readings include Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” Elizabeth Bishop, Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Mary Prince, Derek Walcott Horace Walpole, John Milton among others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Afro-American Studies 134z. Reading Thomas Jefferson and The African in America
Catalog Number: 9959
Jamaica Kincaid
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal....” The author of those words was Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States; but who might have needed them more, the author and President or a contemporary of his, a man he owned named Jupiter. A look through his writings into the world of Thomas Jefferson and the influence the enslaved African had upon him. Special attention will be paid to “The Declaration of Independence,” “Notes on the State of Virginia,” and “The Farm and Garden Book.”
[Afro-American Studies 135z. James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry]
Catalog Number: 2175
Cornel West
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the major works—fiction and non-fiction—of these two towering figures. We shall explore their conceptions of what it means to be human, modern, American, and Black.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Afro-American Studies 138z. Interracial Literature
Catalog Number: 0164
Werner Sollors
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course examines a wide variety of literary texts and films on black-white couples, interracial families, and biracial identity, from classical antiquity to the present. Works studied include romances, novellas, plays, novels, short stories, poems, non-fiction and examples from visual arts. Topics for discussion range from interracial genealogies to racial “passing,” from representations of racial difference to alternative plot resolutions, from religious and political to legal and scientific contexts for the changing understanding of “race.”
Afro-American Studies 139. Black Travel and Transnationality
Catalog Number: 4744 Enrollment: Limited to 40.
Naomi Pabst
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Course examines black travel writing within a broader rubric of black literature and the emerging genre, “travel literature.” With attention to modes of representation and narrative strategy, we will explore histories of black travel and travellers, and the ways that transnational border-crossing influences the cultural, ideological, and political parameters of black identity. We will establish the forms, varieties, motivations, conflicts, and dilemmas of black travel, tourism, and transnational movement, as brought to bear upon issues of race, class, gender, nationality, imperialism, and globalization. Authors include Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, Michele Cliff, Dany Laferrière, Shay Youngblood.
[Afro-American Studies 140. Syncretism: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3988
J. Lorand Matory
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Addresses hotly debated methods in the study of African American lifeways. Syncretism is the convergence of practices and beliefs of diverse origins, culminating in the synthesis of new cultural forms, like jazz and Cuban “Santería.” Examines the cultural prefigurations and political conditions that determine local syntheses and complicate conventional models of cultural retention and purity, acculturation, assimilation, and pluralism. While focused on the African diaspora in the Americas, includes comparative materials from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3827.
[Afro-American Studies 141 (formerly Anthropology 157). Afro-Atlantic Religions]
Catalog Number: 3336
J. Lorand Matory
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Investigates the spiritual, political, and economic lives of millions around the Atlantic perimeter who worship African gods: West and Central Africans, Cubans, Brazilians, Haitians, and North Americans. For them, the gods are sources of power, organization, and healing amid the local political dominance of Muslims and Christians and the seismic expansion of international capitalism—conditions which themselves require significant attention. Lectures focus on such themes as women’s empowerment and the construction of gender in these religions, while a series of in-class discussions with priests will propose its own themes.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Offered jointly with Divinity School as 3692.
Afro-American Studies 143. African-Americans and a New Racial Divide
Catalog Number: 9321
Lawrence D. Bobo
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course directly engages the debate over racism in post-civil rights America. It provides a contemporary assessment of whether, how much, and why racial dynamics influence education, the economy, politics, and broader social relations. Special attention is devoted to matters of general intellectual and cultural trends as well as to the hard politics of the welfare reform, the criminal justice system, and the HIV/AIDs epidemic in Black communities. It seeks a critical assessment of the future of African-Americans in the post-civil rights, post-affirmative action U.S.
Afro-American Studies 144. Haiti and Haitian Vodou
Catalog Number: 8406
Karen McCarthy Brown (Drew University)
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
The practice of Vodou set in historical,political, and cultural contexts, in Haiti and the US Haitian diaspora. Topics include, among others, African influences, the Haitian Revolution, gender, sexuality, healing, and transnationalism.
Afro-American Studies 145. Live Religion in the American City
Catalog Number: 3203
Karen McCarthy Brown (Drew University)
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
An investigation of religious practices in multi-ethnic, religiously pluralistic cities, with sepcial attention to issues such as social gatekeeping, sites of resistance and/or rebellion, multiple religious allegiances, architectural bricolage, and value negotiation.
[Afro-American Studies 151. Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa]
Catalog Number: 2564
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Full course. Hours to be arranged.
This course explores the dynamics of inheritance and choice in post-colonial Africa’s changing political arenas. The course focuses on different approaches to autochthony (or institutional hybridity) since c. 1945, using fictional and non-fictional material. Also to be explored are some implications of both forms for constructions of identity, progress and change in Africa and among its Diasporas.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. This course is to be offered over two semesters to allow in-depth discussion of historical continuities and change potential on various levels.A part informal-conversational and part Socratic method of teaching/pedagogy is to be adopted. To facilitate discussion in class, readings and supplementary material- video clips, documentaries, feature articles, official reports, guest presentations, etc., are to be made available ahead of meetings, as applicable. Student-led seminars are to be encouraged, as are essays and term papers. A written examination is not anticipated.
Afro-American Studies 152. African-American English
Catalog Number: 3137
Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course examines the changing and diverse character of the US African American speech community by providing an overview of language and communicative practices and beliefs. Special focus will be on urban youth language, culture and identity. We will review and analyze significant theories and arguments concerning the description, genesis, maintenance, and social function of African American English, interaction and verbal genres.
Afro-American Studies 153. Hip Hop America: Power, Politics and the Word
Catalog Number: 3152
Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course examines the development of hip hop in the US as a cultural, political and artistic resource. In particular, we will examine hip hop literacy, language and learning, art, performance and dress. Topics include: culture, community, crime and injustice, economics, education, family, history, identity, language, politics, sports, race and racism, sex and sexism. Emphasis will be placed on hip hop in a variety of contexts including schools, religious organizations and political movements.
[Afro-American Studies 154. Language and Discourse: Race and Class]
Catalog Number: 9990
Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The purpose of this course is to study, analyze and critique theories concerning the discursive construction of identity(s) and forms of representation of cultures. It will explore the relationship between power and powerful speech through reviews and critiques of theories of language, culture, and identity as they relate to ethnicity, race, and social class. Focus will be on language ideology and analysis of discourse styles used in the construction of regional, national, and global communities.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Afro-American Studies 155. Contact Languages: Language, Discourse, and Verbal Style in the African Diaspora]
Catalog Number: 2388
Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Contact situations are often catastrophic events and include conquerors and the conquered, oppressors and the oppressed, intermediaries, onlookers, and more. This course explores the history of contact languages in the African Diaspora from a linguistic, political, social and cultural perspective. Focus will be on language contact resulting from plantation slavery in the Caribbean, and North and South America. And how it effects standardization, identity and nationalism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Afro-American Studies 165y. African Women in Art and History]
Catalog Number: 2301 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Looks at the issues of gender identity, power, and display through the lens of key traditions of African art. Women as subjects, patrons, artists, and critics will also be explored in a range of contexts. Female/male aesthetics, male personification of females in masquerades, the prominence of androgyny in African art, “mother gods,” art in contexts of gender socialization, women on local governance, women in colonial discourse, and women on the move, are other issues which will be examined.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Meets at the Sackler Museum.
[Afro-American Studies 166. Proseminar: Contemporary African-American Visual Culture]
Catalog Number: 4829 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Through examination of painting and sculpture, photography, film and video, sports and fashion, this course will explore the production, criticism, and exploitation of contemporary African American visual culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Course convenes in Sackler 406.
Afro-American Studies 167. Images of Blacks, Blacks Making Images
Catalog Number: 2880
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course examines the artistic production and the representation of black people in the art of the Western world with a primary focus on archival resources, exhibition practice, collections, and museum catalogues. Its aim is to introduce undergraduates to a variety of art historical research practices using a dynamic schedule of one lecture and one visit to the Image of the Black in Western Art archive, the Fine Arts Library, or other off-site field trip, each week.
Note: To be held at the Sackler. One day of off-site classroom instruction. Locations to be announced in class. Off-site classroom sessions will be convened from 2-4.
Afro-American Studies 168. Visual Culture of Latina and African-American Women
Catalog Number: 5551
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course examines contemporary art made by African American and Latina women working in North America. Special attention will be given to various approaches to writing about raced and gendered artistic production taken over the last three decades. Throughout the course we will contrast critical with academic essays and traditional artistic approaches with Post-modern practices.
Note: To be held in the Sackler.
Afro-American Studies 169. Visualizing Africa
Catalog Number: 6598 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Suzanne P. Blier, K. Anthony Appiah, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
This course examines the various ways in which Africa historically has been conceptualized and visualized in art and illustrative materials. Emphasis is given to the critical reading of actual works of art and documents. Construction of self and others as seen through images will be discussed. The interface between Africa and the Christian and Islamic Worlds, as well as larger concerns of Slavery, Colonialism, and contemporary art are examined.
Afro-American Studies 187y. Black Cinema as Genre—From Blaxploitation to Quentin Tarantino
Catalog Number: 9338
Isaac Julien
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Looks at the history of African-American Cinema (from Oscar Micheaux to Spike Lee) and focuses on the use of stereotypes and hyperbole in some of its post-war popular genres including blaxploitation (Melvin van Peebles). Discussions will focus on issues of sexism and homophobia as well as the way space, time, and the city figure in these cinemas. Topics include: representation of gender in Dash’s Illusions and Lee’s Girl 6; the role of Pam Grier in blaxploitation films; the “soul film” genre (Superfly) and black independent cinema (Ganja and Hess); the construction of black masculinity in Boyz ‘n the Hood and gangsta-rap themed noir films; and the appropriation of black cinema by other film-makers and genres such as the aesthetic du cool of Quentin Tarantino.
Note: Previous background in cultural theory and/or film theory recommended but not required.
[Afro-American Studies 191. The Civil Rights Movement: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0897
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the movement from its integrationist period in the 1950s and early 1960s to the heyday of militant black power in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Attention given to grassroots community activism, the contribution of nationally prominent individuals and organizations, and the changing of American laws, society, and the state.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[*Afro-American Studies 196. Sociological Perspectives on Racial Inequality in America: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4619 Enrollment: Limited to 30.
William Julius Wilson (Kennedy School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines classical and contemporary works on racial inequality in America. Different conceptions of the social, economic, and political situations that affect the state and nature of race relations are critically analyzed, as well as the different views on race and social policy.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as HLE-209. Students must attend the first meeting of the class to enroll.
Afro-American Studies 196z. Race, Segregation and Inequality
Catalog Number: 5210
Lawrence D. Bobo
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the changing status of African-Americans in the post-civil rights era from a variety of social science perspectives. The focus is on major scholarly assessments of the status of Blacks. Among the focal points of inquiry will be: race-based economic inequality; processes of racial residential segregation; and racial prejudice and bias in politics and everyday interaction. Although focused on contemporary issues and research, the course draws on foundational approaches developed by Du Bois, Johnson, and Drake and Cayton in their pioneering assessments of the status of Blacks.
[Afro-American Studies 231. Topics in African American Literary Studies]
Catalog Number: 8492
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Afro-American Studies 241. Topics in African American Social Science]
Catalog Number: 0198
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
*Afro-American Studies 302. Social Sciences: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7559
K. Anthony Appiah 3067 and other faculty
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This is half of a year long course in which students are introduced to major themes, debates and texts in the broad interdisciplinary field of African-American Studies. Afro-American Stuides 302, in the spring term, focuses on the social sciences.
Note: Required for all graduates in Afro-American Studies in their first year and ordinarily only graduate students affiliated with the program will be permitted to attend.
*Afro-American Studies 310. Individual Reading Tutorial
Catalog Number: 1374
K. Anthony Appiah 3067, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421 (on leave 2001-02), Homi K. Bhabha 4100 (on leave fall term), Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Lawrence D. Bobo 2919, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave fall term), Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, J. Lorand Matory 3098 (on leave spring term), Ingrid Monson 1591 (on leave fall term), Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles) 2212, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Orlando Patterson 1091, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Divinity School) 3193, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, Tommie Shelby 3863 (on leave 2002-03), Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483, Werner Sollors 7424, Ronald Thiemann (Divinity School) 3395, Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Law School) 4609, Cornel West 1212, and William Julius Wilson (Kennedy School) 2401 (on leave 2002-03)
This course allows students to work with an individual member of the faculty in a weekly tutorial. Students may not register for this course until their adviser and the faculty member with whom they plan to work have approved a program of study.
*Afro-American Studies 390. Individual Research
Catalog Number: 4046
K. Anthony Appiah 3067, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421 (on leave 2001-02), Homi K. Bhabha 4100 (on leave fall term), Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Lawrence D. Bobo 2919, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave fall term), Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, J. Lorand Matory 3098 (on leave spring term), Ingrid Monson 1591 (on leave fall term), Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles) 2212, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Orlando Patterson 1091, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Divinity School) 3193, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, Tommie Shelby 3863 (on leave 2002-03), Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483, Werner Sollors 7424, Ronald Thiemann (Divinity School) 3395, Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Law School) 4609, Cornel West 1212, and William Julius Wilson (Kennedy School) 2401 (on leave 2002-03)
This course requires students to identify a research project and carry it out under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Graduate students may use this course to begin to work on the research paper that is a requirement of admission to candidacy.
*Afro-American Studies 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 8411
K. Anthony Appiah 3067, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421 (on leave 2001-02), Homi K. Bhabha 4100 (on leave fall term), Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Lawrence D. Bobo 2919, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave fall term), Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, J. Lorand Matory 3098 (on leave spring term), Ingrid Monson 1591 (on leave fall term), Marcyliena Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles) 2212, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Orlando Patterson 1091, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Divinity School) 3193, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, Tommie Shelby 3863 (on leave 2002-03), Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483, Werner Sollors 7424, Ronald Thiemann (Divinity School) 3395, Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Law School) 4609, Cornel West 1212, and William Julius Wilson (Kennedy School) 2401 (on leave 2002-03)