Professor Margarita Guillory Featured in BU Today Article
AFAM Studies Professor Margarita Guillory was recently featured in a BU Today article discussing one of her courses, CAS AA 296/CAS RN 296: Religion and Hip Hop. The article, titled “This Could Be the Coolest Religion Class You Ever Take,” includes interviews with Dr. Guillory, a teaching fellow, and a current student. “Professor Guillory gives […]
New Course: CFA MH 731: Music and the Black Radical Tradition
Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero is launching a new course next semester, Spring 2022. CFA MH 731 / 831: Music & the Black Radical Tradition will explore the intertwined relationship between the Black liberation struggle in the Americas and Black cultural production in music. No prior musical knowledge is required for this course. (Note: PhD and […]
2021 Summer 1 Course: AA 234: Slavery and the Creation of Race
This Summer 1 course taught by Professor Hope Joyce Scott focuses on engaging in an in depth study of how chattel slavery was created for New World capitalism, and in turn led to racialization in America. This course meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 am-12:30 pm during the Summer 1 session from May 24th-June […]
African American Studies Expands Course Offerings In Response to Rising Student Demand
Professor Louis Chude- Sokei explaining course demand and program expansion. Photo by: Cydney Scott BU Today featured AFAM course expansion in a newly released article. The program’s long term goals include expanding the graduate curriculum and becoming an official undergraduate major. “This spring the program offers the new course Resistance, Revolution and Slavery taught […]
New Spring 2021 Course: CFA MH 400
CFA MH 400: Music of Black Americans (2 credits)—Leland Clarke TH 12:30–1:45pm The course will study genres of Music of Black Americans in the United States and their appearance in and fusion with literature by African Americans. Emphasis on listening, live performances, student presentations, readings, and discussions. Topics include spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, popular music, […]
Summer 1 Course: Queens & Goddesses: Black Feminist Aesthetics
Queens & Goddesses: Black Feminist Aesthetics Instructor: Grace McGowan, PhD Student, American & New England Studies Program, Boston University This course uses modern examples of Black women’s cultural production to explore Black feminist ideas of beauty and aesthetics in America. It focuses on reworkings and reclamations of figures classically associated with beauty and femininity such […]
Summer Courses in AFAM Studies
CAS AA 103: Introduction to African American Literature—Maryanne Boelcskevy Summer 2 (July 6-August 12), B1 (IND) Tues./Thurs. 9 am-12:30 pm What is the African American literary tradition? How does it change over time? This course introduces the cultural, political, and historical contexts of the African American experience through readings of literature. Readings include poetry, slave […]
Summer Courses 2020
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity CAS AA 207 Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S., exploring both contemporary social problems and the deep historical roots of those problems through a sociological lens. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS […]
New grad course “Race and Sound” offered Spring 2020
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English and George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies is teaching an innovative new graduate class in Spring for GRS and CFA. The course, CAS AA 500/EN 740/CFA MH 854 is titled “Race and Sound”. Description: Music has long been a central site for the production of racial […]
Fall 2019: Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World
CAS AA 514 /HI584: Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World The course will be led by Dr. John K. Thornton, Professor of History and African American Studies, and it will meet Mondays at 2:30-5:15 p.m. The role of slavery in shaping the society and culture of the Afro-Atlantic world, highlighting the role of […]