AAAS - African and African American Studies Courses

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AAAS 7 First Year Seminar
AAAS 9 Introduction to AAAS Diaspora Studies
AAAS 10 Introduction to African-American Studies
AAAS 11 Introduction to African Studies
AAAS 12 Race and Slavery in U.S. History
AAAS 13 Black America since the Civil War
AAAS 14 Pre-Colonial African History
AAAS 15 History of Africa since 1800
AAAS 16 History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America
AAAS 18.03 Introduction to African Religions
AAAS 19 Africa and the World
AAAS 20 Feminist Theory
AAAS 20.01 Dartmouth Black Lives
AAAS 20.15 Introduction to Black Feminist Thought
AAAS 20.50 Lest We Forget: History, Collective Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth
AAAS 21 Racial Justice
AAAS 21.05 Carceral Geographies: Explaining Mass Incarceration in the US
AAAS 21.10 Race and Modernity: W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry
AAAS 21.15 Black Ethnicities in the United States
AAAS 21.50 The Color Line, Lynching and the Black Public Sphere: Social & Political Thought of Ida Wells & DuBois
AAAS 21.75 Black Political Thought
AAAS 22 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
AAAS 22.10 African American Religion and Culture in Jim Crow America
AAAS 22.50 Islam in America
AAAS 23 The Black Sporting Experience
AAAS 24 The Black Radical Tradition in America
AAAS 24.50 Contemporary Black Political Thought and the Modern World
AAAS 25 Constructing Black Womanhood
AAAS 26 Toni Morrison
AAAS 27 Transformative Spiritual Journeys. Contemporary Memoirs of African American Religion
AAAS 28.10 Race, Space, and Nature
AAAS 31 Black Theater, U.S.A.
AAAS 31.10 Dance Theatre of Harlem Workshop: Collaborative Storytelling Through Movement
AAAS 31.50 Black Theatre Workshop: The August Wilson Experience
AAAS 31.80 Performing Histories, Performing Us
AAAS 31.90 Black Theatre & Storytelling Workshop in XR: Reimagining The Purple Flower (1928)
AAAS 32.01 Race and Gender in American Film
AAAS 32.02 Black Queer Literature and Film
AAAS 32.05 Cinema of Black Protest
AAAS 32.15 The Making of 21st Century Exhibits: Curating a National Black Theater Museum/Institution
AAAS 32.50 Black LGBTQ History
AAAS 33.10 Rituals of Breath: Black Performance and Resistance
AAAS 34 Early Black American Literature
AAAS 35 Modern Black American Literature
AAAS 35.01 Black Elegies
AAAS 35.02 Disability and Madness in African American Literature and Film
AAAS 35.03 The Idea of Black Culture
AAAS 35.50 Introduction to African American Environmental Thought: The Black Outdoors
AAAS 35.60 Poetry for the People
AAAS 36.50 Rasta and Rastafari
AAAS 39 Jazz: Black Creative Music and American Culture
AAAS 39.01 History of Jazz to 1965
AAAS 39.02 History of Jazz since 1959
AAAS 39.03 Advanced Studies in Jazz History: A Century of Jazz at Dartmouth
AAAS 39.05 Utility of Death and Dying in African American Music
AAAS 39.06 Hip-Hop in the United States
AAAS 39.07 Verzuz: A History of Black Popular Music
AAAS 40 Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
AAAS 42 Women, Religion and Social Change in Africa
AAAS 44 Contemporary Africa: Exploring Myths, Engaging Realities
AAAS 45.01 Environmental Crises & Human Rights
AAAS 46 History of Modern South Africa
AAAS 50 Colonialism, Development, and the Environment in Africa and Asia
AAAS 51 African Literatures: Masterpieces of Literature from Africa
AAAS 53 Islam in Africa
AAAS 54 Postcolonial African Drama
AAAS 54.05 Feminist and Queer Africa on Stage & Screen
AAAS 55.01 African Cinema
AAAS 55.02 The Idea of Africa: Deconstructing Race in the Iconography of a Continent
AAAS 56 The African Political Novel
AAAS 60 Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean
AAAS 60.01 Plantations and Slavery in the Americas
AAAS 60.50 Racial Geographies: Race and the Politics of Place
AAAS 61 Caribbean History: 1898 to the present
AAAS 61.05 Black Agrarian Democracy: Haitian History from Revolution to the Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship
AAAS 62 Nationalism and Revolution in the Caribbean
AAAS 62.75 Race, Gender, & Revolution in the Atlantic World
AAAS 63 Race Matters - Race Made to Matter
AAAS 64 Afro/Black Europe
AAAS 65 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
AAAS 65.01 Revolutionary Imagination: Religion, Modernity, and the Otherwise
AAAS 65.06 Jews and Race
AAAS 65.65 Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Comparing Jewish and African Diasporic Literatures
AAAS 66 B/black Migration: Diversity, Identity, and Solidarity Politics in the U.S. and Beyond
AAAS 67.06 African Diaspora Women Writers
AAAS 67.09 Self, Subject, Photography
AAAS 67.50 Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms
AAAS 67.80 Black Queer & Trans Futures: An Experiment
AAAS 68 Afro/Black Paris
AAAS 68.08 Afro/Black Paris in Film and Life
AAAS 68.10 Afro/Black Paris: Past, Present, and Future
AAAS 68.20 Decolonizing the French Museum: The Memory and Legacies of Black Enslavement
AAAS 69 The Politics of Beauty and the Black Female Body
AAAS 80.05 10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter
AAAS 80.06 Civil Rights in the United States in the 20th Century
AAAS 80.07 Race, Media, Celebrity
AAAS 80.10 The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. DuBois
AAAS 81.01 The Black Arts Movement
AAAS 81.05 Telling Stories for Social Change
AAAS 81.07 Black Noir
AAAS 81.08 A Legacy of Tenderness:" Black Women's Creative Archive
AAAS 81.10 James Baldwin: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
AAAS 82.05 Dave the Potter: Slavery Between Pots and Poems
AAAS 82.10 Queer Literatures of Slavery
AAAS 82.11 Reading Between the Color Lines in 19th-Century American Literature
AAAS 83.05 African Religions of the Americas
AAAS 83.06 Caribbean Lyric and Literature
AAAS 83.07 Cuba in the Black Atlantic: Slavery and Its Legacies
AAAS 83.08 The Global Caribbean
AAAS 83.09 Consuming Culture?: Food & Identity Across the Afro-Americas
AAAS 85.01 South African Literature in English
AAAS 86.04 Social, Political, and Cultural Trends in Contemporary Brazil
AAAS 87.05 Politics of Africa
AAAS 87.06 20th Century African Art
AAAS 87.07 Globalization and the African Continent
AAAS 87.08 Indigenous Slavery in Ghana and Africa
AAAS 87.09 African Popular Culture
AAAS 87.11 Language in Africa
AAAS 87.12 Africa's Time? An Interdisciplinary Survey of Temporality and Power
AAAS 88.07 Afro-Diasporic Dialogues: Latin America and the U.S.
AAAS 88.08 Ethnography of Violence
AAAS 88.11 Atlantic Slavery/Atlantic Freedom
AAAS 88.12 From Diaspora Practices to Theory
AAAS 88.13 Women Writing Memoir
AAAS 88.14 Cities, Subjects & Sonic Africa
AAAS 88.15 Black Women's Activism, 1970-present
AAAS 88.16 Sovereignty, Race, and Rights
AAAS 88.17 Filmmaking and Visual Culture
AAAS 88.18 Black Feminisms in the French Atlantic
AAAS 88.19 Contemporary African American Visual Artists
AAAS 88.20 Music and the Racial Imagination
AAAS 89 Independent Study in African and African American Studies
AAAS 90.01 Identity and Power in the Americas
AAAS 90.02 Prophetism in the Black World
AAAS 90.07 From Africans to African Americans: Perspectives on the Creation of African Diasporas
AAAS 90.09 Carceral Geographies: Explaining Mass Incarceration in the US
AAAS 90.10 Modern Black Spiritualities
AAAS 90.12 Aesthetics and Power
AAAS 91.02 20th Century Protest Poetry
AAAS 91.03 African Religions, Health, and Healing Traditions
AAAS 91.05 Maroons to Marley: Jamaica's Role in Worldwide Revolutions from Slavery to the Present Day
AAAS 97 Senior Independent Research in African and African American Studies
AAAS 98 Honors Thesis in African and African American Studies
AAAS 99 Honors Thesis in African and African American Studies