Interdisciplinary seminar examining various areas of intellectual and research interests related to the American black experience. Integrates knowledge of historical, cultural, sociological, political, and economic issues. Prereq: lower-division course in the social sciences.

Intellectual traditions and histories of African American sociologists between 1900 and 1945. Understanding the nature of their contributions to various strands of American and Pan African social thought. Impacts on public policy.

Baldwin, "Bricktop", Cesaire, Conde, Diop, Himes, and Wright. Jazz, Negritude, and Presence Africaine. Literature, films, concepts, and contemporary issues involving: expatriation, colonialism, racism, and immigration; and places such as the Café Tournon, Belleville, the Louvre, and University of Paris.

Particular periods or aspects of African American history.

This music-centered course explores the relationship between the Black intellectual traditions of musicians and their musical practices. Critical musicology, Black feminist theory, and critical race theory help illuminate the link between African American music and quotidian life. 

The intellectual, political, and social history of African American women from pre-colonial Africa to the re-emergence of black feminism in the late 20th-century United States.

A multi-dimensional study of Morrison's bookwork: fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. Involves conceptual frameworks and ideas that link this project with broader understandings and interpretations of Blacks in the world. A wide range of questions (i.e., aesthetics, feminisms, knowing-politics, language, race) derives from Morrison's literary witnessing of Black community life.

Conceptual, technical, and ethical tools for research among populations in the African Diaspora. Guidelines and practice in reviewing literature and assessing historiography data gathering and analysis, interviewing, participant observation, and archival research.

Various areas of intellectual and research interests related to the American black experience. Integrates knowledge of historical, cultural, sociological, political, and economic issues.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Various masters of African American music and how these masters brought beauty and happiness to the common place.

We will study how creative practices and writings of African American jazz improvisers and composers engage the definitions, production, distribution, and reception of music. Reading critical jazz scholarship and deep listening to recordings will be required. Additional work for graduates.

Commonalities shared by Africans and people of African descent. Political and intellectual currents developed in the face of these currents.

Definitions, representations, and critiques of Pan Africanism. African, African American, and African Caribbean artistic, cultural, and literary products explored. Aesthetics, gender, feminisms, reading, research, reflection, and analysis emphasized.

Effects of global encounters on African, African Caribbean, and African American societies examined.

Writers whose work creates, expands, and engages knowledge of Pan Africanism.

This seminar will examine the complex and varied Africana athletic experiences from the playing field to the coaching ranks and front office from a critical social justice perspective intersecting race, class, gender, and international relations. Additional work required of graduate students.

This seminar will examine the complex and varied Black urban experiences in the 20th and 21st centuries from the 1890s to the present.

Historical understanding of Black women's engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as "ideal" domestic workers.

Exploration of African performance art forms existing since antiquity. Selected contemporary written drama texts. Includes student performance.

Myth and history of the Underground in the context of African American freedom efforts. Emphasis on events, personalities, and sites in upstate New York. Student field research and exploration of archival and Internet resources. Additional work required of graduate students.

A political economy approach to educating students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean. The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes the region's development that has resulted in its current configuration.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Analysis of principle thinkers who have influenced the philosophy and intellectual culture of the region.

Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical tools in comparing state, society relations, and their political and socioeconomic outcomes in the Pan African world and the rest of the world.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Advanced interdisciplinary inquiry into critical areas of intellectual and research interests in relation to black experience in the United States. Students are required to develop major research hypotheses around themes of black experience.

Issues of militarism in political process in Southern Africa in last 15 years. Understanding background which unleashed war, destabilization, and violence in region.

Explores historical backgrounds and contemporary expressions of Black feminist thought around the globe to broaden our knowledge of feminist theory. We take an interdisciplinary approach to Black feminist theory that crosses genres and disciplines.

Readings and research on a topic or theme in African History of the instructor's choosing.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.