Africana Studies Courses by Track or Concentration
There are two tracks or concentrations in Africana Studies -
*With the exception of AFRS 1101, these core courses can also be cross-listed with relevant departments/programs, such as English, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Sociology/Anthropology.
AFRS-1010 to AFRS-1040 are First Year Seminars
‡ denotes Intermediate Seminar
African American Studies courses:
| AFRS-1010 | Racism | Partridge |
| AFRS-1011 | Slavery and the Literary Imagination | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-1012 | Affirmative Action and U.S. History | Purnell |
| AFRS-1013 | African American Writers and the Short Story | Foster |
| AFRS-1017 | Intermarriage in American Fiction | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-1019 | Holy Songs in a Strange Land | Casselberry |
| AFRS-1024 | Love and Trouble: Black Women Writers | Foster |
| AFRS-1025 | The Civil War in Film | Rael |
| AFRS-1026 | Fictions of Freedom | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-1035 | African American Children’s Literature | Muther |
| AFRS-1101 | Introduction to Africana Studies | Program Faculty |
| AFRS-1103 | African American Diasporic Dance | McCarthy-Brown |
| AFRS-1107 | Introduction to the Black Novel in the U.S. | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-1108 | Introduction to Black Women’s Literature | Foster |
| AFRS-1113 | African American Literary Traditions | Muther |
| AFRS-1241 | The Civil War Era | Rael |
| AFRS-1320 | Racial & Ethnic Conflict in American Cities | Purnell |
| AFRS-1581 | History of Jazz I | Music Faculty |
| AFRS-1582 | History of Jazz II | Music Faculty |
| AFRS-1591 | History of Rock Music | Music Faculty |
| AFRS-1592 | History of Hip-Hop | McMullen |
| AFRS-2140 | History of African-Americans to 1619-1865 | Rael |
| AFRS-2141 | African-Americans 1865 to Present | Rael |
| AFRS-2201‡ | Black Women, Politics, the Divine | Casselberry |
| AFRS-2208 | Race and Ethnicity | Nelson |
| AFRS-2217 | Overcoming Racism | Partridge |
| AFRS-2220 | Race, Class, Gender, Urban Crisis | Purnell |
| AFRS-2228 | Protest Music | Casselberry |
| AFRS-2229 | Evolution in America | Hecht |
| AFRS-2232 | Jazz II: Repertory & Performance | McCarthy-Brown |
| AFRS-2234 | Jazz II: Technique | McCarthy-Brown |
| AFRS-2240 | Civil Rights and Black Power Movements | Purnell |
| AFRS-2245 | Bearing the Untold Story | Scanlon |
| AFRS-2266 | The Harlem Renaissance | Muther |
| AFRS-2271 | Spirit Come Down: Black Women and Religion | Casselberry |
| AFRS-2503 | Empire of Feeling | Coviello |
| AFRS-2504 | Nineteenth-Century American Fiction | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-2580 | Reconstructing the Nation | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-2581 | Literature of Jim Crow | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-2582 | Reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-2583 | Literature of the Civil War Era | Chakkakalal |
| AFRS-2584 | The Afterlives of Uncle Tom | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-2600 | African-American Poetry | Muther |
| AFRS-2601 | African American Fiction: Short Story | Muther |
| AFRS-2602 | African American Fiction: Childhood | Muther |
| AFRS-2603 | African American Fiction: Humor & Resistance | Muther |
| AFRS-2621‡ | Reconstruction | Rael |
| AFRS-2623‡ | Atlantic Antislavery | Rael |
| AFRS-2630 | Staging Blackness | Foster |
| AFRS-2650 | (Re)Writing Black Masculinities | Foster |
| AFRS-2651 | Queer Race | Foster |
| AFRS-2652 | African American Writers & Autobiography | Foster |
| AFRS-2653 | Interracial Narratives | Foster |
| AFRS-2654 | White Negros | Foster |
| AFRS-2700‡ | Martin, Malcolm, and America | Purnell |
| AFRS-2870‡ | Comparative Slavery & Emancipation | Rael |
| AFRS-3001 | African-American Literature & Visual Culture | Muther |
| AFRS-3004 | African-American Literature & the Law | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-3011 | African American Film | Muther |
| AFRS-3019 | The End of Blackness? | Foster |
| AFRS-3140 | Research in 19th Century U.S. History | Rael |
African & African Diaspora Studies
African Studies Courses:
| AFRS-1144 | Music in Africa | Perman |
| AFRS-1460 | South African History, 1948-1994 | Gordon |
| AFRS-2233 | Peoples and Cultures of Africa | MacEachern |
| AFRS-2249 | African Philosophy | Conly |
| AFRS-2256 | African Archaeology | MacEachern |
| AFRS-2267 | African Environmental History | Gordon |
| AFRS-2362 | Africa & Atlantic World 1400-1880 | Gordon |
| AFRS-2364 | Africa Since 1880 | Gordon/Vaughan |
| AFRS-2365 | Mogadishu to Madagascar: East African History | Gordon |
| AFRS-2380‡ | Christianity & Islam in West Africa | Vaughan |
| AFRS-2530 | Politics and Societies in Africa | Albaugh |
| AFRS-2821‡ | South African History After Apartheid | Gordon |
| AFRS-2822‡ | Warlords & Child Soldiers in African History | Gordon |
| AFRS-2841‡ | History of African & African Diasporic Thought | Vaughan |
African Diaspora Studies:
| AFRS-1011 | Slavery and the Literary Imagination | Chakkalakal |
| AFRS-1018 | Music and Race in Latin America | Quintero |
| AFRS-1040 | Globalization and Its Critics | Gordon |
| AFRS-1101 | Introduction to Africana Studies | Program Faculty |
| AFRS-1103 | African American Diasporic Dance | McCarthy-Brown |
| AFRS-1136 | Black Musics in Latin America | Quintero |
| AFRS-1572 | Music of the Caribbean | Perman |
| AFRS-2201‡ | Black Women, Politics, the Divine | Casselberry |
| AFRS-2202‡ | Demons and Deliverance in the Atlantic World | Premack |
| AFRS-2205 | Race in the English Renaissance | Kitch |
| AFRS-2210‡ | History and Politics of Afro-Brazilian Culture | Premack |
| AFRS-2211 | Third World Feminism | Lindo |
| AFRS-2235 | Global Pentecostalism: 20th C. Christianity | Premack |
| AFRS-2280 | Race, Biology and Anthropology | MacEachern |
| AFRS-2362 | Africa & Atlantic World 1400-1880 | Gordon |
| AFRS-2407 | Francophone Cultures | Ketner |
| AFRS-2411 | Introduction to Francophone Lit. Study and Criticism | Ketner |
| AFRS-2623‡ | Atlantic Antislavery | Rael |
| AFRS-2703 | Transatlantic Crossings | Nickel |
| AFRS-2840‡ | Transnational Africa & Globalization | Vaughan |
| AFRS-2841‡ | History of African & African Diasporic Thought | Vaughan |
| AFRS-2870‡ | Comparative Slavery & Emancipation | Rael |
| AFRS-3201 | Voices of Women, Voices of the People | Vete-Congolo |
| AFRS-3306 | The Common Good? A History of International Aid | Gordon |
| AFRS-3317 | Childhood Memories: Postcolonial French Caribbean | French faculty |
| AFRS-3320 | Beyond the Postcard: Hispanic Caribbean | Spanish faculty |
| AFRS-3362 | Spiritual Encounters: African Religion in the Americas | Premack |