Topic: African American Race, Identity and Nation: Theoretic
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4:00pm-7:00pm | Tu | Callaway Center C101 | Trimiko Melancon. | WRT. | 4 | 13603 | TBA. |
January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010
Crosslisted: ENG389-010
Catalog Description: Wide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Semester Details: Catalog Description: Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Semester Details: Content: Examining texts written during various historical moments throughout the modern, postmodern, and contemporary periods, this course engages discourses and theories on race, identity, and nation. Exploring the interplay of these apparatuses, in this course we will investigate the ways race--as a category and social construct--has manifested itself and been constituted institutionally, nationally, and transnationally. To this end, we will not only analyze theoretical discourses on race and its attendant politics, but will also examine and conduct research on the impact and functions of race here at Emory, in Atlanta, in the U.S. and beyond. Drawing upon a wide selection of critical scholarship, we will explore the ways critics of various ethnicities and nationalities--W.E.B. Du Bois, Benedict Anderson, Anne McClintock, Ernest Gellner, Gloria Anzuldúa, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham, among others--theorize about the politics of race, identity, and/or nation. We will read these scholars' arguments and theorizations in conjunction with, as well as along the backdrop of selected literary, audio/musical, visual, cinematic and archival texts.
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