Spring 2013 Courses
| AFS 201: Introduction into African American Studies |
Introduction to African American culture through a historical and social perspective. |
| AFS 210: Blacks in American Society |
Social, political, economic experience of blacks in the United States. Topics include the black family, Civil Rights Movement, black politicians, and blacks in the labor market. 210-01: Dr. Naurice Woods, Tuesday& Thursday (2:00-3:15) |
| AFS 300: African American Poetry |
Beginning with Phyllis Wheatley and ending somewhere close to Tupac Shakur, we will examine African American poets and their contribution to the Black Aesthetic. Our text is The Norton Anthology of African American Literature edited by Henry Louis Gates and Nellie McKay. 300-01: Professor Lorenzo Meachum, Monday, Wednesday& Friday (12:00-12:50) |
| AFS 305: Special Topics: Black Masculinity |
305:01: Professor Robert Randolph MW (3:00-4:15) |
| AFS 305: Special Topics: From the Hard knock Life to the Throne: Jay-Z as ideology |
While the class will anchor itself around Jay-Z, other artists and black political leaders will be studied in this course. Considerations of Jay-Z will be enriched by our examinations of the ideological trajectories of such artists like Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka and Queen Latifah. We will examine the radical ideological shifts of political leaders like Malcolm X and W.E.B. DuBois. We will juxtapose the political rhetoric of Michelle Obama and Condoleeza Rice during the 2012 political conventions as well as interrogate the limits of Beyonce’s cosmopolitan feminism. Jay-Z will be contextualized, then, within a larger overarching discussion of ideology and African American popular culture. 305:02: Professor Demetrius Noble, Wednesday (5:00-7:50) |
| AFS 315: Theories and Paradigms in African American Studies |
This course will explore the history, development, and reception of African American public intellectuals of the 20th and 21st Centuries, including Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, and Thomas Chatterton Williams. Additionally, the course will focus on various intellectual traditions and turns, with themes such as cultural memory, Jazz and Blues, post/modernism, historiography, black existentialism, gender and sexuality, aesthetics, “Soul,” folklore, Afrocentricity, and social/political resistance. 315-01: Professor Michael D. Cauthen, Monday, Wednesday& Friday (10:00-10:50) |
| AFS 325, Black Women in the United States |
Explores the historical experiences of women of African descent in America through an evaluation of relevant literature, film, and/or music. 325: Professor Willi Coleman TTH 2:00-3:15 |
| AFS 554: Black Populism in New South (online)—for seniors and graduate students |
The origins, rise, and collapse of Black Populism, the independent black political movement between Reconstruction and the consolidation of Jim Crow, in the South. 554-01: Dr. Omar H. Ali, WEB |
| AFS 653: Perspectives on the African American Experience (online) graduate |
This course investigates, through the reading of five biographies, selected individuals, events, and social and cultural movements that have fundamentally shaped the course of African American advancement in mainstream society. 653:01: Dr. Naurice Woods, WEB |
