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Africana and Cross Listed Courses

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narrative; this course proposes that the memoir, and in particular the African-American memoir, serves as not only the record of one’s life, but also as having political agency and intention. Beginning with Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Malcolm X’s Autobiography and Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of my Name, to Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the course will consider the autobiography as an argument for political and social change; as a witness to one’s life, it also enacts a re-visionary process of social jus- tice. To what degree does the structure of the slave narrative continue to inform contemporary narratives? In what ways might there be a definitive element for African-American autobiographical writing? How do the community and writers interact and are interdependent? What is at stake for the African-American autobiographer? (McCorkle, offered alternate years to AFS 208) AFS 309 Black Cinema This course examines films by African, African American, and other African diaspora directors. It focuses on the attempt by different filmmakers to wrest an African/diasporic identity and aesthetic from a medium that has been defined predominantly by American and European models. Students analyze the implicit and explic- it attempts to formulate a black aesthetic within film, as well as the general phenomenon of the representation of blacks in film. Directors considered include Haile Gerima, Ousmane Sembene, Souleymane Cisse, Charles Burnett, Camille Billops, Isaac Julien, Sara Maldoror, Julie Dash, Spike Lee and others.

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deployed in speculative cinema. Developing a framework grounded in critical race theory, philosophy and film stud- ies, we will work to understand ‘blackness’ as philosophical concept, racial signifier and political position. We will then analyze the cinematic imaginaries of the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres to excavate the placement of black bodies in visual culture. Screenings will include independent and mainstream cinema as well as popular televi- sion shows from the US and the UK. AFS 311 Social Media Empires and eColonialism In 1980, Thomas McPhail coined the term electronic colonialism to describe how “mass media and internet firms are leading to a new concept of empire.” While social media has given rise to #BLM and #NoDAPL it has also been home to the counter discourses of #AllLivesMatter and #WhiteGenocide. Some social media platforms like Gab or WeSearchr were purposely launched as digital havens of “free speech” for those blocked from the more mainstream sites for their white nationalist and supremacist messages. If the internet is not an inherently postracial space, what kind of racialized or racializing space is it? How does it reproduce or reinvent the notion of empire? And where does our understanding of race in the digital age fit into the history of European colonialism? To answer these questions, this course will critically review the basic interventions of postco- lonial theory, critical race and critical whiteness studies, working through the central tropes of whiteness and power as well as the seemingly general concepts of enterprise, empire, the global, capitalism, and technologies of colonial- ism. We will supplement our reading of postcolonial theory with the latest work in digital media studies theorizing race on the internet, comparing their approaches to develop our own method of inquiry. Finally, we will directly examine the digital texts, trends, performances, and platforms, like Tumblr, Facebook, etc., that illustrate these prob- lems to synthesize a theory of coloniality for the digital age. AFS 312 Digital Africana Studies If Africana Studies is perpetually engaged in theorizing the contemporary moment, how does it frame the digital age and the era of the internet? In Digital Africana Studies, students will explore the contributions of scholars whose work brings together questions of race, Blackness, and coloniality with the prob- lems of digital and virtual life such as Ruha Benjamin, Andre Brock, Shaka McGlotten, and Alondra Nelson, among HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 78 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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AMST 202/ARCS 202 Drawing for Study and Storytelling

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