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• AAST 330: Black Images in the Media

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  In this course, students will critically examine the representations of African Americans in major forms of mass media, including newspapers, television and film. The course will review the historical development of the archetype images and trace their progression up to contemporary portrayals. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• AAST 333: Studies in Black Feminism

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  A variable topic course that explores the tradition, central tenets, and key debates of Black Feminism from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. The course examines the basic principles and practices of black feminism and students will conduct interpretative analysis of the work and thought that leading black women writers produce in academic and public contexts. Such a study takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, critically reading, discussing, and responding in written analysis to a series of print, visual, and other texts. Readings will vary from year to year and may include a range of global and black transnational perspectives.
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• AAST 335: Race in American Film & Media

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course is designed as a survey of the various ways historical and contemporary racist imagery of people of color permeate both the film industry and overall American/Global media. Students will interrogate the roots of racist stereotypes of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian/Asian American, Latinx, and Middle Easterners. Through an understanding of this history, we will assess how these stereotypes have evolved over time and the role they have played in constructing and positioning people of color in American society.
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• AAST 340: Race, Viol., & Memory in Amer

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines how Americans have remembered and forgotten four cases of racialized violence in American history-slavery, colonialist violence against Native Americans, Japanese American internment, and the 1992 Los Angeles uprising-to uncover the political commitments underlying various, often competing, collective memories of violence. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
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• AAST 345: Race and Sports in America

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
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• AAST 350: Comparative Black Identity

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  In this course, students will examine how race, gender, class, and geography shape the development of Black identities across various locations in the African diaspora. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• AAST 355: Black Masculinity and Manhood

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  Throughout American history, the perception of black masculinity and manhood has often been associated with negative stereotypes such as docility in the antebellum period to criminality in the post-civil rights era. The rise of hip hop in the 1980's, the Million Man March in the mid-1990s, and the election of President Barack Obama in 2008 has brought the idea of black masculinity to the forefront of contemporary America. It has given scholars a breadth of resources to critically analyze and explore the subject further from the perspective of various disciplines such as sociology, psychology, education, anthropology, and political science. This course will explore socio-historical components of what constitutes black masculinity. We will visit such themes as violence, sex, crime, sports, sexuality, geography, hip hop, religion, feminism, and black power. In addition to examining these themes and ideas through literary works and popular culture, the course will also review film, music, art, and current events to further dissect and add to the field of black masculine identity.
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• AAST 360: Mass Incarceration & Its Roots

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  Between 1972 and 2012, the U.S. prison population increased nearly sevenfold to an astonishing 2.23 million people, and the policies behind these numbers have disproportionately impacted African Americans and Latinos. Given these trends, mass incarceration is emerging as this generation's civil rights issue. The imperative to confront the injustice in the criminal punishment system is as real as it is immediate, for maintaining the status quo carries devastating consequences: the growth of economic inequalities, the erosion of the democratic process, persistent gendered and racialized violence, and the reification of insidious racial stereotypes. This course uses an interdisciplinary framework to examine the major contours of the problem: its precursors, origins, consequences, and solutions.
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• AAST 366: Race-Ethnic Relations

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  In this course, students will critically examine contemporary domestic and global issues of race and ethnicity. Students explore concepts, theoretical perspectives, and research on patterns of cooperation and conflict between different racial and ethnic groups. Sources of prejudice, discrimination, power relations and stratification are discussed and applied. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• AAST 370: Afro-Caribbean Literature

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  A study, taught in English, of a representative selection of Caribbean literature produced by writers of African descent. The course will cover multiple literary genres including folktales, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama. It will consider Francophone, Hispanic, and Anglophone Caribbean authors such as Derek Walcott, Marta Moreno Vega, Paule Marshall, Maryse Condé, Nancy Morejón, Franz Fanon, Jacques Roumain, Edwidge Danticat, and Michelle Cliff. Readings will vary from year to year.
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