Subject: AFST

Term: Fall 2021

AFST 135: Introduction to Modern African History (100/13006)

MWF 10:35-11:25 AM Aug 23-Dec 03

Sadowsky, J

A general introduction to major themes in modern African history, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include oral tradition and narrative, economic structure and dynamics, religious movements, colonialism, nationalism, and the dilemmas of independent African states. Offered as AFST 135, ETHS 253A and HSTY 135.

AFST 212: History of Rock and Roll (100/13629)

MW 04:50-06:05 PM Aug 23-Dec 03

Whitman, K

This course surveys the musical practices of the rock and roll era, broadly defined to include much popular music since the 1950s. Music majors are to enroll in MUHI 312. Offered as AFST 212 and MUGN 212.

AFST 212: History of Rock and Roll (101/13630)

MW 04:50-06:05 PM Aug 23-Dec 03

Ruozzo, S

This course surveys the musical practices of the rock and roll era, broadly defined to include much popular music since the 1950s. Music majors are to enroll in MUHI 312. Offered as AFST 212 and MUGN 212.

AFST 261: African-American History 1865-1945 (100/13005)

TR 11:30-12:45 PM Aug 23-Dec 03

Allen, M

Explores the fashioning of a modern African-American culture between emancipation and the end of World War II. Emergence of a northern-based leadership, the challenge of segregation, emergence of bourgeois culture, the fashioning of racial consciousness and black nationalism, the shift from a primarily southern and rural population to one increasingly northern and urban, the creation and contours of a modern African-American culture, the construction of racial/gender and racial/class consciousness. Offered as AFST 261, ETHS 261 and HSTY 261.

AFST 315: History of Jazz and American Popular Music (100/13633)

TR 10:00-11:15 AM Aug 23-Dec 03

Ferguson, P

Musical styles and structures of jazz and American popular music; emphasis on music since 1900. Recommended preparation: MUTH 202 or MUHI 302. Offered as AFST 315 and MUHI 315.

AFST 366: Racial Inequality and Mass Imprisonment in the US (100/13065)

MW 04:50-06:05 PM Aug 23-Dec 03

Black, T

This course examines the relationship between racial inequality and mass imprisonment in the U.S. It begins by exploring the role of prisons in the Jim Crow south, with a particular focus on convict-leasing practices, and then turns to the north to examine the social forces that created the black urban ghetto and concentrated black urban poverty. The course also examines the impact that these same social forces have had on Puerto Ricans. We will then explore a series of topics including urban poverty and crime, the war on drugs, the politics of mass incarceration, the prospects that mass incarceration has become the new Jim Crow, and the effects that mass incarceration has had on voting rights, urban communities, families and children. We will conclude with a discussion of varying decarceration arguments, strategies, movements, and achievements. Offered as AFST 366 and SOCI 366.