The Atlantic World created between 1500 and 1800 developed a unique form of chattel slavery--one that was generationally racialized for people of African descent. This course will examine this form of human bondage and its resonances in colonial British North America and the United States. It will begin with the American South by examining the emergence of Africanized chattel slavery. Using as a case study, Historic Brattonsville, a former cotton plantation in South Carolina's upcountry consisting of over 750 acres and 30 buildings, and which exploited over 200 enslaved Black bodies, the first part of the course will further examine the contours of slavery and slaveholding in that region of the country, particularly after the rise of cotton as its main cash crop.  It will next examine slavery and slaveholding in the American North by focusing on the European settler colonies there, with a special focus on Rhode Island and New York's Hudson Valley. Finally, for both areas the course will interrogate present imaginaries concerning the legacies of Diasporic enslavement for descendant communities. The social-cultural construction of race and its meaning(s) as a historical phenomenon is a central concern of the course.

Post-Apartheid Imaginaries

Course Number: ANTH 275

CRN Number: 10341

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

Archaeology of African American Farms, Yards, and Gardens

Course Number: ANTH 290

CRN Number: 10342

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Professor:

Christopher Lindner

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Hegeman 201

    Fri   1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

LS  Laboratory Science   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Historical Studies

Political Ecology

Course Number: ANTH 349

CRN Number: 10345

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 308

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

Elementary Arabic II

Course Number: ARAB 102

CRN Number: 10101

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ziad Dallal

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs    8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Intermediate Arabic II

Course Number: ARAB 202

CRN Number: 10102

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ziad Dallal

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Religious Art of Latin America

Course Number: ARTH 273

CRN Number: 10093

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Susan Aberth

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Latin American/Iberian Studies; Theology

Courage To Be: Black Contrarian Voices

Course Number: CC 108 D

CRN Number: 10333

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Thomas Williams

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

HA MBV  Historical Analysis Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Human Rights; Literature

The Right to Employment

Course Number: ECON 227

CRN Number: 10678

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor: Kyle Mohr  

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 204

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Sociology

Before and after Islam: Arabia and the Horn of Africa in the First Millennium CE

Course Number: HIST 108

CRN Number: 10196

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Valentina Grasso

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin Language Center 118

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1500

Course Number: HIST 109

CRN Number: 10197

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Lloyd Hazvineyi

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies

Music and Society in Africa Since 1900

Course Number: HIST 233

CRN Number: 10306

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Lloyd Hazvineyi

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies

Epidemics and Society

Course Number: HR 223

CRN Number: 10298

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Helen Epstein

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Global Public Health

Queer of Color Critique

Course Number: HR 397

CRN Number: 10617

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Kwame Holmes

Schedule/Location:

Mon      1:30 PM - 3:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Radical Reading: Nganang's Historical Fiction

Course Number: LIT 369

CRN Number: 10388

Class cap: 14

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ursula Embola

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Human Rights

Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

Course Number: MES 100

CRN Number: 10205

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ibrahim Elhoudaiby

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Study of Religions

Jazz Harmony II

Course Number: MUS 172

CRN Number: 10489

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

John Esposito

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Blum Music Center N211

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies

Jazz Through the Prism of History II

Course Number: MUS 177B

CRN Number: 10692

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Professor:

Angelica Sanchez

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Blum Music Center N210

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies

American Popular Song II 1930-1950

Course Number: MUS 266B

CRN Number: 10490

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Professor:

John Esposito

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Blum Music Center N211

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies

Advanced Contemporary Improvisational Techniques I

Course Number: MUS 366A

CRN Number: 10691

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Professor: John Esposito  

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Blum Music Center N211

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists: Africana Studies

Introduction to Philosophy: Slavery

Course Number: PHIL 129

CRN Number: 10208

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jay Elliott

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Classical Studies; Human Rights

Punishment, Prisons, & Policing

Course Number: SOC 224

CRN Number: 10264

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Allison McKim

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

Pain and Possibility: Black Feminism in Sociology

Course Number: SOC 279

CRN Number: 10224

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jomaira Salas Pujols

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights