African American Studies resources
AAS 100by Kim Collins - last updated on Sep 29th, 2009This course introduces the field of African American Studies by surveying some of its major areas of development in historical studies, literary studies, social sciences, religious studies and the arts including music and the visual arts.
AAS 190 Black Athleteby Kim Collins - last updated on Sep 14th, 2009This seminar examines the roles, contradictions, struggles, and triumphs of African American athletes as symbols of racial uplift, resistance, economic advancement, and democracy during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
AAS 359: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1900 to PRESENT (Same as ENG 359, AMST 385)by Kim Collins - last updated on Jan 20th, 2009This course is an introduction to 20th century African American literature, in particular such writers as James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest J. Gaines, Ralph Ellison, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
History-AAS 488SWRby Kim Collins - last updated on Mar 25th, 2009Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). This class covers Garvey, Garveyism, Black Nationalism and a discourse on Pan Africanism.
ILA 790: Call and Responseby Kim Collins - last updated on Sep 02nd, 2009Theorizing Culture, Race and Gender in Racial Formations, ILA 790 is a introductory prose Seminar in African American Studies.