Black New York - Interdisciplinary
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Overview
Subject area
AFR
Catalog Number
3000ID
Course Title
Black New York - Interdisciplinary
Description
Using history, literature, the arts, politics, and sociology, this interdisciplinary course seeks to trace the Africana presence in New York from the 1600s to the present. This localized course will enable students to examine the varied ways in which people of African descent in the Diaspora have helped to shape the complex identity of New York City over time. Readings, films, music, information literacy sources, and local cultural and research institutions will be used to examine topics, such as slavery, resistance, migration, immigration, labor, Civil Rights, popular culture, gender politics, and gentrification. Sites of inquiry in the five boroughs may include, but are not limited to, the African Burial Ground, San Juan Hill, and Harlem in Manhattan, Sandy Ground in Staten Island, Weeksville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown-Heights, and Flatbush in Brooklyn, the South Bronx, and Addisleigh Park in Queens.
Pre- or Corequisite
034702
Requirement Designation
FUS - Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity
Liberal Arts
Yes
Course Attributes
INTD - INTD (Interdisciplinary), NPER - NPER (ePermit Not Allowed)
Department(s)
Credits
Minimum
3
Max
3
Components
Name
Lecture
Contact Hours
3