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African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 1
AFRICAN AND AFRICANA globalization in order to cultivate a theoretical
understanding of social change processes.
STUDIES (BI-CO) Haverford’s Institutional Learning Goals are
available on the President’s website, at http://hav.to/
Department Website: learninggoals.
https://www.haverford.edu/africana-studies
African and Africana Studies concentrators and
Curriculum
students hone sophisticated global frames of The African and Africana Studies curriculum
reference and dynamic research methods in order is organized to help students develop a global
to study continental Africa and the African diaspora. understanding of African societies and experiences
Drawing on anthropology, economics, history, throughout the African diaspora. A key to realizing
linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political this goal is students’ capacities to relate disparate
science, and sociology, students analyze and materials from cognate disciplines to their
interpret processes of emancipation, decolonization, concentrated research in African and Africana
development, and globalization in Africa proper and Studies. Because African and Africana Studies
in societies with populations of African origin. concentrators must take courses in various fields and
disciplines, it is vital that they have an opportunity
African and Africana Studies is a Bi-College program, to historically, conceptually, and theoretically frame
offered as a minor at Bryn Mawr or as an area of their coursework in the concentration. To that end,
concentration for students at Haverford majoring in concentrators in the African and Africana Studies
certain disciplines. The concentration at Haverford program must take a foundation course at either
is open to majors in which at least two African and Haverford or Bryn Mawr College. Students may
Africana Studies courses are offered. The African satisfy this requirement by taking either AFST H101,
and Africana Studies program also belongs to a “Introduction to African and Africana Studies” or
consortium with Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore HIST B102, “Introduction to Africana Civilizations.”
College, and the University of Pennsylvania, allowing
concentrators to access resources and courses at all Students are advised to complete one of the two
four participating institutions. foundation course options as early as possible,
ideally during the first two years, and by no later
Learning Goals than the junior year.
• Study continental Africa and various African
diasporas through a global frame of reference.
Concentration Requirements
• Concentrators must take either AFST H101,
• Understand how the African continent has
“Introduction to African and Africana
been linked for centuries to transcontinental
Studies” (Haverford College) or HIST B102,
movements of people, money, ideas, and things.
“Introduction to Africana Civilizations” (BMC).
• Study African political and cultural history and
• Other than the required introductory course,
African diasporic movements and the links
students must complete five additional courses
between them.
from a list approved by the concentration
• Understand how a variety of methodological coordinator.
approaches or disciplinary perspectives, including
• At least two, and no more than three, courses
anthropology, economics, history, linguistics,
must be completed in the departmental major.
literature, music, philosophy, political science,
and sociology, can be used to analyze social • At least three African and Africana Studies courses
life and practices in Africa and its diasporas and must be taken in at least two departments outside
understand global trade, slavery, emancipation, of the major.
decolonization, and development against a • At least one of the required courses must deal
background of international economic change with the African diaspora.
in Africa itself and in societies worldwide with • Concentrators must complete either a senior
populations of African origin. thesis or seminar-length essay in an area of
• Examine the values and beliefs of persons and African and Africana Studies.
communities in multiple African societies as a way
Students majoring in a department that requires
to critically and comparatively engage European
a thesis satisfy therequirement by writing on a
and American history and philosophy.
topic approved by their department and by the
• Examine African peoples’ responses to coordinator(s) of the African and Africana Studies
racialized Atlantic slave trade, colonization, and program. If the major department does not require
a thesis, an equivalent written exercise that is a2 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
seminar-length essay is required. The essay may be (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered:
written within the framework of a particular course Occasionally)
or as an independent study project. The topic must
be approved by the instructor in question and by the AFST H233 TOPICS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE:
coordinator(s) of the African and Africana Studies A NEW WAVE (1.0 Credit)
program. Successful completion of the African and Asali Solomon
Africana Studies minor/concentration is noted on Division: Humanities
students’ final transcripts. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
Analysis of the Social World
Faculty This course will focus on authors of the Caribbean
Below are the core Bi-Co African and Africana Studies and its diaspora, engaging fiction, theory, memoir,
faculty. Many other faculty at both institutions poetry and drama from the mid-twentieth century
contribute courses to the program; see the Courses through the present. Core themes will include
section for a full listing. migration, class, colonialism, racial identity, gender
and sexuality. Crosslisted: English, Africana Studies
Core Faculty at Haverford (Typically offered: Every other Fall)
Linda Strong-Leek
Provost; Professor of African and Africana Studies; AFST H245 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF AFRICA:
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies CULTURE, POWER AND IDENTITY (1.0 Credit)
Zolani Ngwane
Terrance Wiley Division: Social Science
Assistant Professor of Religion and Coordinator of Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
African and Africana Studies This course is a historical overview of some classic
and contemporary ethnographic studies of Africa.
Core Faculty at Bryn Mawr The course focuses on the contribution of social
Kalala Ngalamulume anthropology to our understanding of the history and
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, socio-cultural identities and practices of the people
Co-Director of International Studies and Co-Director of Africa. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Africana Studies
of Health Studies (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
Year)
Chanelle Wilson
Assistant Professor of Education and Director of
AFST H270 PORTRAITS IN BLACK: THE
Africana Studies
INFLUENCE AND CRUCIBLE OF AFRICAN-
AMERICAN CULTURE (1.0 Credit)
Courses at Haverford Christina Zwarg
Africana Studies Courses Division: Humanities
AFST H136 BLACK ECOLOGIES (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
Tajah Ebram Tools of literary history used to examine the
This course engages writings and cultural works influence of African-American culture in the United
about Black eco-literary and ecological traditions. States. Focus on the literary events of the nineteenth
Black Ecologies focuses on the multiple ecological and early twentieth century. Emphasis on the
and spatial conditions that have over-determined authority of African-American culture for U.S. fictions
Black life and relationships to nature including the of democracy.
middle passage, slavery, racial segregation, food (Typically offered: Every other Year)
apartheid, gentrification and even incarceration. All
these phenomena have produced unequal access AFST H283 AFRICAN POLITICS, AFRICAN
to natural resources, space, food and land through NOVELS AND FILM (1.0 Credit)
systems that racialize, gender and commodify space. Susanna Wing
By exploring Black cultural and land based worker’s Division: Social Science
literary, cultural, and community responses to anti- The study of politics in Africa through African
Black environmental conditions, we will consider how literature. We explore themes including colonial
Black communities reclaim spatial autonomy through legacies, gender, race and ethnicity, religion and
creative modes of collective liberation. Student's political transition as they are discussed in African
critical and creative writing will be based on course literature. Crosslisted: Political Science, Africana
texts and outdoor experiences of observation and Studies Prerequisite(s): One previous course in
laboring collectively at Haverfarm. Open only to first- political science or instructor consent
year students as assigned by the Director of College
Writing. Crosslisted: AFST,ENVS.African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 3
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other will change in response to issues of contemporary
Year) import. Students will play a role in collaborative
syllabus and curricular design. Crosslisted: AFST.
AFST H319 BLACK QUEER SAINTS: SEX, Pre-requisite(s): Change depending on topic. For this
GENDER, RACE, CLASS AND THE QUEST FOR iteration, at least one course in Africana Studies,
LIBERATION (1.0 Credit) Black Studies or equivalent experience.
Terrance Wiley (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every Year)
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Anthropology Courses
Analysis of the Social World ANTH H212 FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY (1.0
Drawing on fiction, biography, critical theory, film, Credit)
essays, and memoirs, participants will explore Juli Grigsby
how certain African American artists, activists, Division: Social Science
and religionists have resisted, represented, and Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
reinterpreted sex, sexuality, and gender norms This course delves into the historical development
in the context of capitalist, white supremacist, and utility of feminist anthropology. Feminist
male supremacist, and heteronormative cultures. Ethnography is both methodology and method
Crosslisted: Africana Studies, Religion Prerequisite(s): that seeks to explore how gender, race, sexuality,
200-level Humanities course, or instructor consent and subjectivity operate in a variety of contexts.
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other We will explore articulations and critiques of
Year) feminist ethnographic methods that engage
researcher positionality and the politics of research.
AFST H361 TOPICS AFRICAN-AMERICAN This course is one part analytic and another
LIT: REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICAN part how-to. Participants will read classic and
SLAVERY (1.0 Credit) contemporary ethnographies while learning to craft
Asali Solomon auto-ethnographic research. Prerequisite(s): One
Division: Humanities ANTH course or instructor consent
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every Year)
For the past three centuries African American writers
have mined the experience of chattel slavery in ANTH H214 RACE, CRIME, & SEXUALITY (1.0
the cause of literal and artistic emancipation. Slave Credit)
narratives, as well as poetry, essays and novels Juli Grigsby
depicting slavery, constitute a literary universe so Division: Social Science
robust that the term subgenre does it injustice. In What is a crime and who is a criminal? How are social
this work spanning the 18th-21st centuries, the understandings of punishment and control informed
reader will find pulse-quickening plots, gruesome by hegemonic racial and sexualized ideologies? How
horror, tender sentiment, heroism, degradation, do the answers to these questions change the ways
sexual violation and redemption, as well as resonant we imagine and respond to news? To violence? And
meditations on language and literacy, racial identity, impact subjectivities? This seminar will examine
power, psychology, democracy, freedom and the the complex intersections between race, gender,
human character. This course is focused primarily sexuality, and crime within U.S. cultural, political and
on prose representations of slavery in the Americas. social contexts. To do this, we will explore historical
Our discussions will incorporate history, but will and contemporary interdisciplinary studies that
foreground literary and cultural analysis. provide arguments about the connections between
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every race, gender, sexuality, poverty and the criminal
other Year) justice system. Topics include: mass incarceration,
policing, violence, and media representations of
AFST H399 TOPICS IN ACTIVE HISTORY: crime. Prerequisite(s): One ANTH course or instructor
HISTORY OF BLACK LIVES MATTER (1.0 Credit) consent
Andrew Friedman (Typically offered: Occasionally)
Division: Social Science
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: ANTH H228 REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, SOCIAL
Analysis of the Social World MOVEMENTS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY (1.0 Credit)
This course teaches students, in a collaborative Juli Grigsby
setting, the practice of “active history.” This is the Division: Social Science
dynamic praxis of deep history and nimble historical Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
work as a mode of explaining, explicating and An exploration of ethnographic approaches to
intervening in an urgent and shifting present. Topics women’s reproductive justice issues, as well as4 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
look at reproduction in the broader structural This course surveys anthropological and historical
(socioeconomic and political) contexts in which it approaches to the body and embodiment in
is situated. We will focus on specific topics such the Middle East, with a focus on themes of
as abortion, contraception, sterilization, sexually representation and power. Our aim is to read up,
transmitted diseases (STDs) and how these issues across, and through prisms of class, gender, and
are connected to other social justice issues such colonialism to better grasp at the stakes of politics
as poverty, environmentalism, and welfare reform. and to question the contours and limits of the
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 103 normal, the healthy, the able, and the pious. Pre-
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every requisite(s): one 100-level course in Anthropology,
Year) Political Science, Sociology, or History
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other
ANTH H238 VISUALIZING BORDER/LANDS (1.0 Fall)
Credit)
Division: Social Science ANTH H311 ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) AND THE BODY (1.0 Credit)
This course attends to the visual representations Juli Grigsby
of the border, including film and photography, but Division: Social Science
also text and sound. Students will engage in their Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
own creative and visual representations around the An examination on how violence, in its alternate
theme of borders for the final course assignment. forms, impacts identity formation by inscribing race,
(Typically offered: Occasionally) gender and sexuality onto the body at multiple social
and cultural junctures. One of the primary objectives
ANTH H245 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF AFRICA: of the course is to theoretically engage with the
CULTURE, POWER AND IDENTITY (1.0 Credit) relationship between the body, identity, and state,
Zolani Ngwane structural and symbolic violence. Prerequisite(s):
Division: Social Science ANTH 103 or instructor consent
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every Year)
This course is a historical overview of some classic
and contemporary ethnographic studies of Africa. ANTH H318 BLACK FEMINIST
The course focuses on the contribution of social BORDERLANDS (1.0 Credit)
anthropology to our understanding of the history and Staff
socio-cultural identities and practices of the people Division: Social Science
of Africa. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Africana Studies Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every the Social World
Year) This course explores how Black people throughout
the African diaspora create transnational
ANTH H262 AFTER THE SUNSET: LESSONS IN geographies of belonging, traverse imposed
TRANSITION TO PEACE - THE SOUTH AFRICAN borders, and imagine the world in new ways.
EXAMPLE (1.0 Credit) Students will have the opportunity to apply the
Zolani Ngwane course themes through writing and creative
Division: Social Science assignments. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Visual
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Studies Prerequisite(s):One course in either Africana
This course will give students an opportunity to Studies or Visual Studies or Gender and Sexuality
engage with issues, theories and methodologies of Studies or Anthropology.
nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, (Typically offered: Only Once)
transitional justice, post conflict reconstruction and
peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case Fine Arts Courses
study. It will also look at the role played by Quakers ARTS H217 THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-
in ending the conflict and supporting a negotiated AMERICAN ART FROM 1619 TO THE
process. PRESENT (1.0 Credit)
(Typically offered: Only Once) William Williams
Division: Humanities
ANTH H271 THE BODY AND EMBODIMENT IN Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
THE MIDDLE EAST (1.0 Credit) Analysis of the Social World
Zainab Saleh A survey course documenting and interpreting
Division: Social Science the development and history of African-American
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Art from 1619 to present day. RepresentativeAfrican and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 5
works from the art and rare book collections will CSTS H223 MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES IN
supplement course readings. ANTIQUITY (1.0 Credit)
Matthew Farmer
Comparative Literature Courses Division: Humanities
COML H233 TOPICS IN CARIBBEAN Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
LITERATURE: A NEW WAVE (1.0 Credit) Exploration of the processes of identity formation,
Asali Solomon normativity, and exclusion in ancient Greece, with a
Division: Humanities focus on race, gender, and sexuality. We’ll recover
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: the lives of marginalized people in the ancient world,
Analysis of the Social World extending our own histories into the ancient past.
This course will focus on authors of the Caribbean (Typically offered: Occasionally)
and its diaspora, engaging fiction, theory, memoir,
poetry and drama from the mid-twentieth century English Courses
through the present. Core themes will include ENGL H233 TOPICS IN CARIBBEAN
migration, class, colonialism, racial identity, gender LITERATURE: A NEW WAVE (1.0 Credit)
and sexuality. Crosslisted: English, Africana Studies Asali Solomon
(Typically offered: Every other Fall) Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
COML H312A ADV TOPICS FRENCH Analysis of the Social World
LITERATURE: LE CINÉMA MILITANT DE RAOUL This course will focus on authors of the Caribbean
PECK (1.0 Credit) and its diaspora, engaging fiction, theory, memoir,
Koffi Anyinefa poetry and drama from the mid-twentieth century
Division: Humanities through the present. Core themes will include
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) migration, class, colonialism, racial identity, gender
In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, Raoul and sexuality. Crosslisted: English, Africana Studies
Peck’s I am not Your Negro was widely watched (Typically offered: Every other Fall)
on campuses across the country. This biopic of
James Baldwin and reflection on anti-Black racism ENGL H265 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE:
in the US is only one of many films the Haitian- BLACK HORROR (1.0 Credit)
born filmmaker has released in the past twenty Asali Solomon
years taking on both historical and contemporary Division: Humanities
societal issues, from neo-colonialism (Lumumba) and Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
genocide (Sometimes in April) in Africa, to the failure Analysis of the Social World
of international aid to developing countries (Fatal This course is an examination of literary and artistic
Assistance), capitalism (Profit and Nothing But!) horror by black artists. We will articulate the artistic
and, most recently, historical racism and colonialism genre of horror and its tendencies, with a particular
(Exterminate all the Brutes ). In this seminar we focus on representations of racial Otherness and
will discuss the wide-ranging questions that Peck racism. We will also consider particular affinities
addresses in his oeuvre, paying special attention to between horror and modes such as black literary
his radical aesthetics. Crosslisted: FREN and COML realism and naturalism, attentive to moments which
(Offered: Fall 2021) collapse a fear of blackness and the terror associated
with being black in America. We will study the
Classical Studies Courses work of authors and other artists, including Charles
CSTS H222 CREATING CLASSICS: A Chestnutt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Chester Himes,
VISUAL WORKSHOP ON PASOLINI & GREEK Edward P. Jones, Chesya Burke, Nalo Hopkinson,
DRAMA (1.0 Credit) Tanananrive Due, The Geto Boys, Snoop Dogg,
Alessandro Giammei, Ava Shirazi Childish Gambino and Jordan Peele. We will also
Division: Humanities consider white American literary representations of
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) racial otherness and horror in the works of authors
Can our engagement with the past be a creative such as Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O’Connor, as
action? A reclaiming and subversion of inherently well as the 1968 George Romero film “Night of the
exclusionary ideas and media? This seminar and Living Dead.”
creative workshop answers such questions through
an analysis and recreation of ancient sources and ENGL H270 PORTRAITS IN BLACK: THE
their afterlives in the modern media. INFLUENCE AND CRUCIBLE OF AFRICAN-
(Typically offered: Every other Year) AMERICAN CULTURE (1.0 Credit)
Christina Zwarg
Division: Humanities6 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) after Freud, we will look again at authors attempting
Tools of literary history used to examine the to bring together (and sometimes keep apart)
influence of African-American culture in the United cultural traditions irrupting into literary form from
States. Focus on the literary events of the nineteenth the late 18th to the early 20th century. We will also
and early twentieth century. Emphasis on the explore how forms of satire, comedy, and humor
authority of African-American culture for U.S. fictions cross wires with traumatic experience. The role of
of democracy. heightened emotional states, including fugue or
(Typically offered: Every other Year) hypnotic experiences, and the shifting currency
of the words "terror,” “freedom,” and “shock” will
ENGL H278 CONTEMPORARY WOMEN be part of our focus. Prerequisite(s): two 200-level
WRITERS (1.0 Credit) English courses or instructor consent
Sarah Watson (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every Three
Division: Humanities Years)
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
Readings in novels, short fiction, poetry, and ENGL H364 JOHN BROWN'S BODY: VIOLENCE,
some non-fictional prose by contemporary women NATURAL FANTASY, AND BODIES THAT
writers. A study of the interrelations between MATTER (1.0 Credit)
literature written by female authors and the Christina Zwarg
questions, concerns, and debates that characterize Division: Humanities
contemporary feminsit theory. Readings in Moore, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
Jordan, Gaitskill, Barry, Rankine, Parks, Ng, Morrison, Analysis of the Social World
etc. This course will use the spectacular life and death
(Offered: Fall 2021) of John Brown to examine a common set of interests
in a diverse set of texts produced across two
ENGL H361 TOPICS AFRICAN-AMERICAN centuries. These interests include terrorism and
LIT: REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICAN the place of violence in the cause of liberty, the
SLAVERY (1.0 Credit) relationship of aesthetic value to changing social
Asali Solomon and political claims, the role of race and gender
Division: Humanities in the construction of emancipatory rhetoric, and
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) the role of that same rhetoric in the creation (or
For the past three centuries African American writers conservation) of a cultural and national sense of
have mined the experience of chattel slavery in history. Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level English
the cause of literal and artistic emancipation. Slave courses or instructor consent.
narratives, as well as poetry, essays and novels (Typically offered: Every other Year)
depicting slavery, constitute a literary universe so
robust that the term subgenre does it injustice. In Environmental Studies Courses
this work spanning the 18th-21st centuries, the ENVS H136 BLACK ECOLOGIES (1.0 Credit)
reader will find pulse-quickening plots, gruesome Tajah Ebram
horror, tender sentiment, heroism, degradation, This course engages writings and cultural works
sexual violation and redemption, as well as resonant about Black eco-literary and ecological traditions.
meditations on language and literacy, racial identity, Black Ecologies focuses on the multiple ecological
power, psychology, democracy, freedom and the and spatial conditions that have over-determined
human character. This course is focused primarily Black life and relationships to nature including the
on prose representations of slavery in the Americas. middle passage, slavery, racial segregation, food
Our discussions will incorporate history, but will apartheid, gentrification and even incarceration. All
foreground literary and cultural analysis. these phenomena have produced unequal access
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every to natural resources, space, food and land through
other Year) systems that racialize, gender and commodify space.
By exploring Black cultural and land based worker’s
ENGL H363 TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: literary, cultural, and community responses to anti-
TRAUMA AND ITS OTHERS (1.0 Credit) Black environmental conditions, we will consider how
Christina Zwarg Black communities reclaim spatial autonomy through
Division: Humanities creative modes of collective liberation. Student's
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: critical and creative writing will be based on course
Analysis of the Social World texts and outdoor experiences of observation and
This course will expose students to recent trauma laboring collectively at Haverfarm. Open only to first-
theory and the segregated traditions of literary year students as assigned by the Director of College
history. Thinking about trauma theory before and Writing. Crosslisted: AFST,ENVS.African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 7
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: we will focus on the time after the 1884/1885
Occasionally) Berlin Conference that sought to regulate the so-
called “Scramble for Africa”. In addition, we will
ENVS H312 BLACK & ASIAN FOODWAYS: AN also familiarize ourselves with the presence of
EXPLORATION (1.0 Credit) Afro-Germans and Afro-Europeans, and how their
Talia Young perception, reception, and representation changed
Division: Social Science over time. Furthermore, we will briefly touch on
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World; C: contemporary relations between Germany / Europe
Physical and Natural Processes and Africa. Our discussions will explore issues of
This course will examine environmental and social race and gender and draw on a variety of different
histories of Black and Asian foods and cuisines in materials such as historical, political, economic,
the US, including an introduction to environmental medical, sociological, and literary texts and visual
food studies, US Black and Asian migration histories, media.
conflict, and solidarity, and case studies of specific (Typically offered: Occasionally)
foods. Prerequisite(s): ENVS 101 and at least one of
ENVS 201–204; or permission of instructor History Courses
(Offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2022; typically HIST H114 ORIGINS OF THE GLOBAL
offered: Only Once) SOUTH (1.0 Credit)
James Krippner
French and French Studies Courses Division: Social Science
FREN H312A ADV TOPICS FRENCH Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
LITERATURE: LE CINÉMA MILITANT DE RAOUL Analysis of the Social World
PECK (1.0 Credit) This course provides a boldly revisionist
Koffi Anyinefa perspective on the emergence of our contemporary
Division: Humanities world. Though rooted in the social and cultural
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) transformations of the late medieval and early
In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, Raoul modern eras, course materials and class discussions
Peck’s I am not Your Negro was widely watched will range from the ancient past into our twenty first
on campuses across the country. This biopic of century present. As we pursue a common human
James Baldwin and reflection on anti-Black racism history, we shall consider diverse local trajectories
in the US is only one of many films the Haitian- as well as shared trans-regional experiences, and
born filmmaker has released in the past twenty examine them in a manner suggestive of possible
years taking on both historical and contemporary futures. During the first half of the semester, we
societal issues, from neo-colonialism (Lumumba) and will analyze Asia, Africa and the Americas prior to
genocide (Sometimes in April) in Africa, to the failure the emergence of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish)
of international aid to developing countries (Fatal colonialism. In the second half of the semester we
Assistance), capitalism (Profit and Nothing But!) will assess the increasingly interconnected world
and, most recently, historical racism and colonialism negotiated in the centuries after 1492, a useful
(Exterminate all the Brutes ). In this seminar we though controversial date signifying the beginnings
will discuss the wide-ranging questions that Peck of a truly global history.
addresses in his oeuvre, paying special attention to (Typically offered: Every Fall)
his radical aesthetics. Crosslisted: FREN and COML
(Offered: Fall 2021) HIST H310 POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES OF RACE
AND THE BODY (1.0 Credit)
German Courses Andrew Friedman
GERM H220 GERMAN COLONIAL HISTORY IN Division: Social Science
AFRICA & AFRO-GERMANS/EUROPEANS (1.0 Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
Credit) Analysis of the Social World
Imke Brust This course examines the technologies, ideologies,
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: and material strategies that have created and
Analysis of the Social World specified human beings as racialized and gendered
This course will provide a historical overview of subjects in the U.S. Readings cover biopolitics,
German colonial history in Africa, and critically disability studies, material culture, histories of
engage with its origins, processes, and outcomes. disease, medicine, violence and industrialization. In
We will first scrutinize colonial efforts by individual our discussions and research, we will aim to decode
German states before the first unification of the production of "reality" at its most basic and
Germany in 1871, and then investigate the molecular level. Crosslisted: History, Health Studies
colonialism of Imperial Germany. In particular,8 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
HIST H399 TOPICS IN ACTIVE HISTORY: Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
HISTORY OF BLACK LIVES MATTER (1.0 Credit) A study of jazz and its many meanings, from Louis
Andrew Friedman Armstrong to John Coltrane, and from Charles Mingus
Division: Social Science to Sun Ra. We’ll explore the music itself, of course.
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: But our main focus will be on the stories that its
Analysis of the Social World creators tell about themselves, and the stories
This course teaches students, in a collaborative that various eye (and ear) witnesses and critics tell
setting, the practice of “active history.” This is the about why jazz matters. Together, we will discuss,
dynamic praxis of deep history and nimble historical question, and write about topics such as art and
work as a mode of explaining, explicating and entertainment, difference and race, ownership and
intervening in an urgent and shifting present. Topics authenticity, discrimination and community.
will change in response to issues of contemporary (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
import. Students will play a role in collaborative other Year)
syllabus and curricular design. Crosslisted: AFST.
Pre-requisite(s): Change depending on topic. For this Political Science Courses
iteration, at least one course in Africana Studies, POLS H235 AFRICAN POLITICS (1.0 Credit)
Black Studies or equivalent experience. Susanna Wing
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every Year) Division: Social Science
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
Health Studies Courses Analysis of political change in Africa from the colonial
HLTH H305 THE LOGIC AND POLITICS OF period to contemporary politics. Selected case
GLOBAL HEALTH (1.0 Credit) studies will be used to address central themes
Anna West including democracy, human rights, gender,
Division: Social Science interstate relations, economic development, and
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World globalization. Prerequisite(s): one course in political
This course engages critically with changing science or consent of the instructor.
intervention paradigms in global health from the (Typically offered: Every other Year)
late colonial period to the present. Topics include
colonial and missionary medicine; sanitation POLS H283 AFRICAN POLITICS, AFRICAN
and segregation; medicalization of reproduction; NOVELS AND FILM (1.0 Credit)
eradication campaigns; family planning; labor Susanna Wing
hierarchies; postcolonial technoscience; medical Division: Social Science
research. Prerequisite(s): HLTH 115 OR at least one The study of politics in Africa through African
course in anthropology or history OR permission of literature. We explore themes including colonial
the instructor legacies, gender, race and ethnicity, religion and
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other political transition as they are discussed in African
Year) literature. Crosslisted: Political Science, Africana
Studies Prerequisite(s): One previous course in
HLTH H310 POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES OF political science or instructor consent
RACE AND THE BODY (1.0 Credit) (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other
Andrew Friedman Year)
Division: Social Science
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: POLS H289 IMMIGRATION POLITICS AND
Analysis of the Social World POLICY (1.0 Credit)
This course examines the technologies, ideologies, Anita Isaacs
and material strategies that have created and Division: Social Science
specified human beings as racialized and gendered Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
subjects in the U.S. Readings cover biopolitics, Examines the causes and rights of forced migrants
disability studies, material culture, histories of and refugees along with the responses and
disease, medicine, violence and industrialization. In responsibilities of the international community. Focus
our discussions and research, we will aim to decode on Mexico and Central America. Prerequisite(s): One
the production of "reality" at its most basic and political science course or instructor consent
molecular level. Crosslisted: History, Health Studies (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
other Year)
Music Courses
MUSC H127 READING JAZZ (1.0 Credit)
Richard Freedman
Division: HumanitiesAfrican and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 9
Religion Courses We will explore the origins, existential, and ethical
RELG H155 THEMES IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY dimensions of Rhythm and Poetry (RAP) music.
OF RELIGION: RITUAL (1.0 Credit) Giving attention to RAP songs written and produced
Zolani Ngwane by African American artists, including Tupac, Nas,
Division: Social Science Jay-Z, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, and Kanye West,
Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World we will analyze their work with an interest in
What is it that rituals actually do? Are they understanding a) the conceptions of God and the
enactments (affirmations) of collective ideals or are good reflected in them, b) how these conceptions
they arguments about these? Are they media for connect to and reflect African American social and
political action or are they expressions of teleological cultural practices, and c) how the conceptions under
phenomena? The course is a comparative study consideration change over time.
of ritual and its place in religious practice and (Typically offered: Every other Year)
political argumentation. Concrete case studies
will include an initiation ritual in South Africa, the RELG H319 BLACK QUEER SAINTS: SEX,
Communion Sacrament in Christianity, a Holocaust GENDER, RACE, CLASS AND THE QUEST FOR
commemorative site in Auschwitz, and the cult of LIBERATION (1.0 Credit)
spirit-possession in Niger. Cross-listed: Anthropology, Terrance Wiley
Religion Division: Humanities
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B:
Occasionally) Analysis of the Social World
Drawing on fiction, biography, critical theory, film,
RELG H230 RELIGION AND BLACK FREEDOM essays, and memoirs, participants will explore
STRUGGLE (1.0 Credit) how certain African American artists, activists,
Terrance Wiley and religionists have resisted, represented, and
Division: Humanities reinterpreted sex, sexuality, and gender norms
This course will examine the background for and in the context of capitalist, white supremacist,
the key events, figures, philosophies, tactics, and male supremacist, and heteronormative cultures.
consequences of the modern black freedom struggle Crosslisted: Africana Studies, Religion Prerequisite(s):
in United States. The period from 1955-1965 will 200-level Humanities course, or instructor consent
receive special attention, but the roots of the (Offered: Fall 2021)
freedom struggle and the effect on recent American
political, social, and cultural history will also be Spanish Courses
considered. SPAN H340 THE MOOR IN SPANISH
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every LITERATURE / EL MORO EN LA LITERATURA (1.0
other Year) Credit)
Luis Rodriguez-Rincon
RELG H242 TOPICS IN RELIGION AND Division: Humanities
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: THE RELIGIOUS This course examines cultural production in the
WRITINGS OF JAMES BALDWIN (1.0 Credit) frontier cultures of medieval Iberia against a
Terrance Wiley background of collaboration and violence among
Division: Humanities Islamic, Christian, and Jewish communities. Topics
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: include the Christian Reconquista; the construction
Analysis of the Social World of Spanishness as race and nation in the context
An investigation of various traditions of the black of the first global empire; idealization of Moors in
religious experience from slavery to the present. narrative and material culture; Moors and Jews in
Religious traditions examined within the course the discourses of gender and sexuality; internal
may include slave religion, black Christianity, Gullah colonialism and Morisco resistance; perceptions
religion, Santeria and Islam. The relationship of these of Spain as exotic or abject other in the Northern
religious traditions to American social history as well European or US imaginary; contemporary African
as how they adapted over space and time will also migrations and the “return of the repressed” of
be explored. imperial Spain. This class is conducted in Spanish.
(Typically offered: Occasionally) (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
other Year)
RELG H254 RAP AND RELIGION: RHYMES
ABOUT GOD AND THE GOOD (1.0 Credit) Visual Studies Courses
Terrance Wiley VIST H214 MODERN ART - AFRICA AND
Division: Humanities EUROPE (1.0 Credit)
Division: Humanities10 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course explores how Black people throughout
This course focuses on encounters between the the African diaspora create transnational
cultures of Africa and Europe, from the 17th through geographies of belonging, traverse imposed
the mid-20th centuries, and on the resulting borders, and imagine the world in new ways.
visual practices that emerged on both continents. Students will have the opportunity to apply the
Prerequisite(s): sat least one Visual Studies course at course themes through writing and creative
the 100 or 200 level or permission from instructor assignments. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Visual
(Typically offered: Occasionally) Studies Prerequisite(s):One course in either Africana
Studies or Visual Studies or Gender and Sexuality
VIST H216 BLACK SPECULATIVE FUTURES (1.0 Studies or Anthropology.
Credit) (Typically offered: Only Once)
Christina Knight
Division: Humanities Writing Program Courses
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) WRPR H116 BLACK PHILADELPHIA (1.0 Credit)
The course will explore how black artists, Tajah Ebram
theorists, and activists imagine different futures Division: First Year Writing
to critique power asymmetries and create radical This course will engage cultural products by Black
transformation. We will investigate how the writers, artists and activists who explore the racial
speculative works differently across genres and we and spatial politics of Black life in Philadelphia since
will craft our own embodied speculative art. the dawn of the 20th century. Open only to first-
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every year students as assigned by the Director of College
other Spring) Writing.
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
VIST H306 HARLEM WORLD: GLOBAL Year)
BLACKNESS IN THE 20TH CENTURY (1.0 Credit)
Staff WRPR H126 RADICAL BLACK FEMINISMS AND
Division: Humanities THE CARCERAL STATE (1.0 Credit)
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Tajah Ebram
This course traces the lasting global impact of the Division: First Year Writing
Harlem Renaissance. Drawing upon poetry, music, With growing calls for the abolition of prisons and all
visual art, and political philosophy, we will examine systems of racial-sexual domination, this course will
the movement’s complex treatment of Africa and examine a long history of works by and about Black
consider the precedent it set in imagining black women political prisoners since the Black Power Era.
identity throughout the diaspora. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the
(Typically offered: Occasionally) Director of College Writing.
(Typically offered: Every Year)
VIST H315 BLACK PERFORMANCE THEORY (1.0
Credit) WRPR H127 READING JAZZ (1.0 Credit)
Christina Knight Richard Freedman
Division: Humanities Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
An interdisciplinary visual studies examination A study of jazz and its many meanings, from Louis
of how black performance reflects and shapes Armstrong to John Coltrane, and from Charles Mingus
subject formation in America as well as the diaspora. to Sun Ra. We’ll explore the music itself, of course.
Readings include live and recorded performances as But our main focus will be on the stories that its
well as historical and theoretical secondary sources. creators tell about themselves, and the stories
Prerequisite(s): 100 or 200-level course in either that various eye (and ear) witnesses and critics tell
Africana Studies or Gender and Sexuality Studies or about why jazz matters. Together, we will discuss,
permission from the instructor. question, and write about topics such as art and
(Typically offered: Every other Year) entertainment, difference and race, ownership and
authenticity, discrimination and community.
VIST H318 BLACK FEMINIST (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every
BORDERLANDS (1.0 Credit) other Year)
Staff
Division: Social Science WRPR H136 BLACK ECOLOGIES (1.0 Credit)
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of Tajah Ebram
the Social World This course engages writings and cultural works
about Black eco-literary and ecological traditions.African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 11
Black Ecologies focuses on the multiple ecological ARTD B210 SACRED ACTIVISM: DANCING
and spatial conditions that have over-determined ALTARS, RADICAL MOVES (1.0 Credit)
Black life and relationships to nature including the Lela Aisha Jones
middle passage, slavery, racial segregation, food How do practices of embodiment, choreography,
apartheid, gentrification and even incarceration. All artistry, performance, testifying, and witnessing
these phenomena have produced unequal access guide us to transformative and liberation action in
to natural resources, space, food and land through our lives? This course excavates the adornment
systems that racialize, gender and commodify space. of beings/bodies and the making of sacred spaces
By exploring Black cultural and land based worker’s for embodied performance, introspection, and
literary, cultural, and community responses to anti- ceremonial dance. We will take up the notion of
Black environmental conditions, we will consider how the being/body as an altar and the importance of
Black communities reclaim spatial autonomy through costume and garb in setting the scene for activism,
creative modes of collective liberation. Student's ritual, and staged offerings. The cognitive has gotten
critical and creative writing will be based on course us here, what might continuums of believing in
texts and outdoor experiences of observation and the being/body unveil? Expect to dance, move,
laboring collectively at Haverfarm. Open only to first- write, discuss, create projects, and engage in a
year students as assigned by the Director of College variety of textual and media resources. We will work
Writing. Crosslisted: AFST,ENVS. individually and collectively for communal learning.
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: The content for this course will be steeped in the
Occasionally) lives, cultures, and practices of black and brown
folks. This is a writing and dance attentive course. No
Courses at Bryn Mawr dance experience necessary, just courage to move.
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered:
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Courses Occasionally)
ARCH B101 INTRODUCTION TO EGYPTIAN AND
NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (1.0 Credit) ARTD B267 DIASPORIC BODIES, CONTINUOUS
Division: Humanities REVIVALS (1.0 Credit)
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Lela Aisha Jones
A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the Division: Humanities
ancient Near East and Egypt. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every This dance theory, writing, and practice course takes
other Fall) marronage—the act of escaping from slavery in
the Americas to create autonomous communities
Dance - Arts Program Courses —as its model. It views Black and African diasporic
ARTD B138 HIP HOP LINEAGES (0.5 Credit) movement cultures and artistic practices as forms
Lela Aisha Jones, Staff of contemporary marronage, providing spaces of
Division: Humanities embodied activism, release, restoration, and revival.
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Students will engage the body as an individual,
Hip Hop Lineages is a team-taught practice-based intimate maroon site and cultivate the embodied
course, exploring the embodied foundations of Hip collective spaces that counter oppressive systems.
Hop and its expression as a global phenomenon. By connecting theory and practice, students will
Offered on a pass/fail basis only. build individual and collective consciousness through
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every the resources of narrative, memoir, and nostalgia
Semester) intertwined with guided movement sessions. We
will also utilize creative writing, film, and visual
ARTD B141 AFRICAN DIASPORA: BEGINNING arts as components that enhance potential for
TECHNIQUE (0.5 Credit) deeper embodied engagement. This course is writing
Lela Aisha Jones, Staff attentive and has required movement assignments/
The African Diaspora course cultivates a community presentations. A previous dance studies course or a
that centers global blackness, dance, live music, and course in a relevant discipline such as anthropology,
movement culture. Embody living traditions from a sociology, or history is strongly recommended but
selection of peoples and countries including Guinea, not required. No dance experience is necessary, but
Ghana, Mali, Brazil, and Cuba. Offered on a pass/fail a willingness to move is essential.
basis only. (Typically offered: Only Once)
(Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered: Every other
Fall) ARTD B270 DIASPORIC BODIES, CITIZENSHIP,
AND DANCE (1.0 Credit)
Lela Aisha Jones12 African and Africana Studies (Bi-Co)
Take a journey through citizenship, belonging and region even after the Vandal invasions of the fifth
revolutions, guided by the lived experiences of century.
prominent teachers, choreographers, and performers (Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered:
of traditional and contemporary dances of Black and Occasionally)
African descent. Our theory and practice frameworks
are grounded in the works of women and LGBTQ Education Courses
+ scholars and dance artists navigating diasporic EDUC B200 COMMUNITY LEARNING
blackness, citizenship, and nationhood. We will COLLABORATIVE: PRACTICING
centralize the notion that Black Life is Tied to All PARTNERSHIP (1.0 Credit)
Life, investigating the significance of developing Alice Lesnick
philosophies and practices of integrity, as well as Division: Social Science
boundary-breaking transformations when traversing Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
dance/movement as a nomadic practice in a Designed to be the first course for students
globalized world. No dance experience is necessary, interested in pursuing one of the options offered
but a willingness to move is essential. through the Education Program, this course is open
(Typically offered: Occasionally) to students exploring an interest in educational
practice, theory, research, and policy. The course
ARTD B348 DANCE ENSEMBLE: AFRICAN asks how myriad people, groups, and fields have
DANCE FORMS (0.5 Credit) defined the purpose of education, and considers
Staff the implications of conflicting definitions for
Division: Humanities generating new, more just, and more inclusive
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression modes of "doing school". In collaboration with
Dance ensembles are designed to offer students practicing educators, students learn practical and
significant opportunities to develop dance technique philosophical approaches to experiential, community-
and performance skills. Students audition for engaged learning across individual relationships and
entrance into individual ensembles. Original works organizational contexts. Fieldwork in an area school
choreographed by faculty or guest choreographers or organization required
are rehearsed and performed in concert. Students (Typically offered: Every Spring)
are evaluated on their participation in rehearsals,
demonstration of commitment and openness to EDUC B260 RECONCEPTUALIZING POWER IN
the choreographic process, and achievement in EDUCATION (1.0 Credit)
performance. Preparation: This course is suitable Chanelle Wilson
for intermediate and advanced level dancers. The systematic critical exploration of the influence
Concurrent attendance in at least one technique of power in education requires attention and re-
class per week is recommended. Students must conceptualization; this course investigates the
commit to the full semester and be available for following question: how can power be redistributed
rehearsal week and performances in the Spring to ensure equitable educational outcomes? We
Dance Concert. will examine the production of transformative
(Offered: Spring 2022; typically offered: Every knowledge, arguing the necessity for including
Year) creativity and multi-disciplinary collaboration in
contemporary societies. Supporting students’
Classical Studies Courses pursuit of a politics of resistance, subversion,
CSTS B108 ROMAN AFRICA (1.0 Credit) and transformation will allow for the rethinking
Division: Humanities of traditional education. We will also center the
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) intersections between race, class, gender, sexuality,
In 146 BCE, Rome conquered and destroyed the language, religion, citizenship status, and geographic
North African city of Carthage, which had been its region, assessing their impact on teaching and
arch-enemy for generations, and occupied many of learning. Weekly fieldwork required.
the Carthaginian settlements in North Africa. But by (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered:
the second and third centuries CE, North Africa was Occasionally)
one of the most prosperous and cultured areas of the
Roman Empire, and Carthage (near modern Tunis) EDUC B266 CRITICAL ISSUES IN URBAN
was one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean. EDUCATION (1.0 Credit)
This course will trace the relations between Rome Kelly Zuckerman
and Carthage, looking at the history of their mutual Division: Social Science
enmity, the extraordinary rise to prosperity of Roman Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World
North Africa, and the continued importance of the This course examines issues, challenges, and
possibilities of urban education in contemporaryAfrican and Africana Studies (Bi-Co) 13
America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, culturally sustaining knowledge. Prerequisites:
class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and Two courses, at least one in Education, with the
school systems; and restructuring and reform. While second in Africana Studies, Linguistics, Sociology, or
we look at urban education nationally over several Anthropology; or permission of the instructor.
decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that (Typically offered: Every Spring)
students investigate through documents and school
placements. Weekly fieldwork in a school required. English Courses
(Typically offered: Every Year) ENGL B216 NARRATIVITY AND HIP HOP (1.0
Credit)
EDUC B282 ABOLITIONIST TEACHING FOR Mecca Sullivan
EDUCATION REVOLUTION (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities
Chanelle Wilson Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
This course will focus on the development of a This course explores narrative and poetic forms and
critical consciousness, utilizing abolitionist teaching themes in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive
pedagogy and culturally responsive pedagogy, analysis of hip-hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual
as tools for social transformation and resistance. performance and visual art, we will consider how
Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory rappers and hip-hop artists from the late twentieth
will be utilized as lenses for understanding the century onward have used the form to extend,
impact of white supremacy in deeply rooted further, and complicate key concerns of literature in
institutions. Formal schooling is often perceived as general, and African American and African Diaspora
a positive vestige of colonization, yet traditional literature in particular. We will explore key texts in
practices often continue a legacy of oppression, hip hop from the late 1970s to the current moment.
in different forms. Postcolonial Theory provides a Reading these texts alongside short fiction by
variety of methodological tools for the analysis of writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, Ralph
education and culture that are especially relevant Ellison, James Baldwin, Victor LaValle, Kiese Laymon,
in the age of globalization, necessitating the Ivelisse Rodriguez, Regina Bradley and others, we
reconceptualization of citizenship. Critical Race will consider how themes of socioeconomic mobility,
Theory offers a set of tenets that can be used to gender and sexuality, queer and feminist critique,
contextualize subjugation and implement practices and intersectional political engagement animate
that amplify the voices of the marginalized. Afro- artists’ narrative and poetic strategies across genre
centrism and Critical Black Feminism inform a and media. Written work will include regular in-class
revolutionized education, which can, and should, presentations, short creative assignments, three
support students’ pursuit of a politics of resistance, short papers, and a final project. As a part of the
subversion, and transformation. Students will engage Philly program, the course will take place in Center
with novels, documentaries, historical texts, and City, Philadelphia. Along with course readings, we
scholarly documents to explore US education as will engage directly with writers, artists, and events
a case study. Experiential trips to Afrocentric and that help shape Philadelphia’s vibrant hip-hop and
non-traditional educational spaces add depth to our literature scene. For additional information see the
work. In this course, we will consider the productive program's website https://www.brynmawr.edu/philly-
tensions between an explicit commitment to ideas program
of emancipation and progress, and the postcolonial (Offered: Fall 2021; typically offered:
concepts and paradigms which impact what is Occasionally)
created in the achievement of education revolution.
(Typically offered: Occasionally) ENGL B217 NARRATIVES OF LATINIDAD (1.0
Credit)
EDUC B308 INQUIRIES INTO BLACK STUDY, Division: Humanities
LANGUAGE JUSTICE, AND EDUCATION (1.0 Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
Credit) This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion
Alice Lesnick bicultural and transnational identities and narrate
Growing out of the Lagim Tehi Tuma/”Thinking the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin
Together” program (LTT), the course will explore America. We will focus on topics of shared concern
the implications for education in realizing the among Latino groups such as struggles for social
significance of global Black liberation and Black justice, the damaging effects of machismo and
Study/ies—particularly in relation to questions racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and
of the suppression and sustenance of language the affective experience of migration. By analyzing
diversity and with a focus, as well, on Pan-Africanism a range of cultural production, including novels,
—by engaging with one particular community as poetry, testimonial narratives, films, activist art, and
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