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Your search for courses for 23/WI and with code: HISTAFRDIASPORA found 2 courses.
HIST 125.00 African American History I: From Africa to the Civil War 6 credits
Open: Size: 30, Registered: 16, Waitlist: 0
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| 3:10pm4:55pm | 3:10pm4:55pm |
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This course is a survey of early African American history. It will introduce students to major themes and events while also covering historical interpretations and debates in the field. Core themes of the course include migration, conflict, and culture. Beginning with autonomous African politics, the course traces the development of the United States through the experiences of enslaved and free African American women and men to the Civil War. The main aim of the course is for students to become familiar with key issues and developments in African American history and their centrality to understanding U.S. history.
HIST 220.00 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 21, Waitlist: 0
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| 10:10am11:55am | 10:10am11:55am |
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This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.
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