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0910F
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Fall 2023
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Curriculum
BLST-111 Introduction to Black Studies
Jared Loggins
(Section 01)
BLST-114 The Blues Muse: African American Music in American Culture
Jason Robinson
(Section 01)
BLST-121 Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
BLST-130 Transnational American Studies
Jallicia A. Jolly
(Section 01)
BLST-147 Race, Place, and the Law
David P. Delaney
(Section 01)
BLST-163 Black Genius: African American Artistic Masterpieces
Frank Leon Roberts
(Section 01)
BLST-215 Music and Poetry of the African Diaspora
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 01)
BLST-221 Black and White in the U.S. South: Race, Racism, and Resistance
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
(Section 01)
BLST-253 Slaves, Voyagers, and Strangers: Building Colonial Cities
Dwight A. Carey
(Section 01)
BLST-268 Black History of Spanish America, 1503-1886
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
BLST-280 Slave Resistance in Latin America & the Caribbean
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
BLST-300 Research in Black Studies
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
(Section 01)
Jallicia A. Jolly
(Section 01)
BLST-310 Giving: Our Gospel of Wealth
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander
(Section 01)
Michael Stein
(Section 01)
BLST-326 Diamonds (Guns and Money): An African History of a Precious Commodity
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
BLST-339 Toni Morrison-Multi-Genre Exploration
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 01)
BLST-345 Black Studies Thesis and Research Workshop
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
BLST-347 Race, Sex, and Gender in the U.S. Military
Khary O. Polk
(Section 01)
BLST-350 Black Latinas: Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Women of African Descent
Solsiree Del Moral
(Section 01)
BLST-353 Tangled Legacies: Cultural and Political Histories in Francophone West Africa
Monika Brodnicka
(Section 01)
BLST-360 James Baldwin
Frank Leon Roberts
(Section 01)
BLST-361 Remixing and Remaking: Adaptation in Contemporary Black Literature
Aneeka A. Henderson
(Section 01)
BLST-380 Whitewashing Race
Ron Lembo
(Section 01)
BLST-461 The Creole Imagination
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander
(Section 01)
BLST-490 Special Topics
TBA (Section 01)
BLST-498 Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 02)
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
(Section 03)
Jallicia A. Jolly
(Section 04)
Jared Loggins
(Section 05)
BLST-498D Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
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