A.B. African American Studies

Princeton University

Bachelor's degree

In Princeton (USA)

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    Bachelor's degree

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    Princeton (USA)

The Department of African American Studies (link is external) offers the African American Studies concentration for undergraduates with a strong interest in studying the complex interplay between political, economic, and cultural forces shaping the historic achievements and struggles of African-descended people in the United States and their relationship to others around the world.

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  • Dance
  • Poetry
  • American Literature
  • American History
  • Public
  • Law
  • Art
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Course programme

AAS 201 Introduction to the Study of African American Cultural Practices Fall SA As the introductory course required to concentrate or earn a certificate in African American Studies, this course examines the past and present, the doings and the sufferings of Americans of African descent from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the ways in which serious intellectual scrutiny of the agency of black people in the United States help redefine what it means to be American, new world, modern and postmodern. I. Perry, E. Glaude Jr., N. Murakawa

AAS 202 Introductory Research Methods in African American Studies (also

SOC 202

) Not offered this year SA The purposes of this course are to assist the student in developing the ability to critically evaluate social science research on the black experience and to do research in African studies. To accomplish these goals, the course will acquaint students with the processes of conceptualization and basic research techniques, and some of the unique issues in conducting research on the black experience. A variety of appropriate studies will be utilized. One three-hour seminar. Staff

AAS 211 The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices (See DAN 211)

AAS 221 Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender (See SOC 221)

AAS 230 Topics in African American Studies (also

ENG 231

) Fall LA This course examines the selected non-fiction writings of one of America's most influential essayists and public intellectuals: James Baldwin. Attention will be given to his views on ethics, art, and politics - with particular consideration given to his critical reflections on race and democracy. E. Glaude Jr.

AAS 262 Jazz History: Many Sounds, Many Voices (See MUS 262)

AAS 312 Special Topics In Urban Dance (See DAN 322)

AAS 317 Race and Public Policy (See WWS 331)

AAS 321 Black Power and Its Theology of Liberation (also

REL 321

) Not offered this year HA This course examines the various pieties of the Black Power era. We chart the explicit and implicit utopian visions of the politics of the period that, at once, criticized established black religious institutions and articulated alternative ways of imagining salvation. We also explore the attempt by black theologians to translate the prophetic black church tradition into the idiom of black power. Our aim is to keep in view the significance of the Black Power era for understanding the changing role and place of black religion in black public life. E. Glaude Jr.

AAS 325 African American Autobiography (also

ENG 393

/

REL 366

) Not offered this year LA Highlights the autobiographical tradition of African Americans from the antebellum period to the present as symbolic representations of African American material, social, and intellectual history and as narrative quests of self-development. Students will be introduced to basic methods of literary analysis and criticism, specifically focusing on cultural criticism and psychoanalytic theory on the constructed self. Staff

AAS 327 20th Century Master (also

GSS 368

) Not offered this year LA This special topics course will focus on artists and intellectuals whose corpus reflects and illuminates 20th century African American life. Lorraine Hansberry, the first African American female playright to have a play open on Broadway, explored a series of critical themes in her work, including: race, migration, colonialism, gender and social class. In addition to having a distinguished career as a playright, Hansberry was an activist and advocate for gender and racial justice. Students will study her published and unpublished plays, essays and poetry, as well as relevant social and cultural history and literary criticism. I. Perry

AAS 346 The American Jeremiad and Social Criticism in the United States (See REL 367)

AAS 351 Law, Social Policy, and African American Women (also

GSS 351

) Spring SA Journeying from enslavement and Jim Crow to the post-civil rights era, this course will learn how law and social policy have shaped, constrained, and been resisted by black women's experience and thought. Using a wide breadth of materials including legal scholarship, social science research, visual arts, and literature, we will also develop an understanding of how property, the body, and the structure and interpretation of domestic relations have been frameworks through which black female subjectivity in the United States was and is mediated. I. Perry

AAS 352 Topics in the Politics of Writing and Difference (See SPA 352)

AAS 353 African American Literature: Origins to 1910 (also

ENG 352

) Fall LA This introductory course focuses on black literature and literary culture from the mid-18th century to the early 20th; it will cover the poetry of Phillis Wheatley and Paul L. Dunbar; the political oratory of Sojourner Truth and David Walker; slave narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs; non-fiction prose by W. E. B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper; and Frances Harper's and James Weldon Johnson's novels. In readings, assignments, and discussions, students will explore the unique cultural contexts, aesthetic debates, and socio-political forces that surround the production of an early African American literary tradition. A. Womack

AAS 359 African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to Present (also

ENG 366

) Not offered this year LA A survey of twentieth- and twenty-first century African American literature, including the tradition's key aesthetic manifestos. Special attention to how modern African American literature fits into certain periods and why certain innovations in genre and style emerged when they did. Poetry, essays, novels, popular fiction, a stage production or two, and related visual texts. K. Nishikawa, A. Womack

AAS 362 Race and the American Legal Process: Emancipation to the Voting Rights Act (also

WWS 386

/

POL 338

) Fall SA This course examines the dynamic and often conflicted relationships between African American struggles for inclusion, and the legislative, administrative, and judicial decision-making responding to or rejecting those struggles, from Reconstruction to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In tracing these relationships we will cover issues such as property, criminal law, suffrage, education, and immigration, with a focus on the following theoretical frameworks: equal protection, due process, civic participation and engagement, and political recognition. I. Perry

AAS 366 African American History to 1863 (also

HIS 386

) Spring HA This course explores African-American history from the Atlantic slave trade up to the Civil War. It is centrally concerned with the rise of and overthrow of human bondage and how they shaped the modern world. Africans were central to the largest and most profitable forced migration in world history. They shaped new identities and influenced the contours of American politics, law, economics, culture and society. The course considers the diversity of experiences in this formative period of nation-making. Race, class, gender, region, religion, labor, and resistance animate important themes in the course. T. Hunter, K. Taylor

AAS 367 African American History Since Emancipation (also

HIS 387

) Fall HA This course offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post emancipation African American history. Traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics. Using a wide variety of texts, images, and creative works, the course situates African American history within broader national and international contexts. J. Guild

AAS 368 Topics in African American Religion (also

REL 368

) Not offered this year LA Assesses the value of religion and its impartations of the historical, ethical, and political in African American life. Courses will also critique African American religion from a broader contextual basis by establishing commonalities and differences across historical and cultural boundaries. W. Best

AAS 373 History of African American Art (See ART 373)

AAS 376 Race and Religion in America (See REL 377)

AAS 389 Women Writers of the African Diaspora (See ENG 389)

AAS 392 Topics in African American Literature (also

ENG 392

) Not offered this year LA A historical overview of black literary expression from the 19th century to present day. Will emphasize a critical and analytical approach to considering the social, cultural, and political dimensions of African American literature. Staff

AAS 393 Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America (See HIS 393)

AAS 397 New Diasporas (See ENG 397)

AAS 403 Race and Medicine (See ANT 403)

AAS 477 The Civil Rights Movement (also

HIS 477

) Not offered this year HA This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of African American social and political mobilization from World War II through the 1970s. Through an analysis of historical scholarship, oral history, sermons, works of literature, film and music, it explores the various ways that African Americans articulated their political demands and affirmed their citizenship using the church, grassroots organizations, workers' rights, feminism, education, war, the federal bureaucracy, and the law as tools for political action. The course also considers the ways these movements have been remembered, memorialized, and appropriated in more recent times. J. Guild, I. Perry

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