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Intro to African American Studies (AFAM 131)

Term: 2025-2026 Academic Year Fall Term

Faculty

Sharon J Grant
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Schedule

Mon-Wed, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (8/25/2025 - 12/21/2025) Location: TL LNGH 235

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This course is a general interdisciplinary survey that traces the African American experience, spanning five hundred years from the colonization of the US and the installation of trans-Atlantic slavery to the present day. Throughout their expansive history, African Americans developed rituals, traditions, music, art, science, inventions, dance, literature, and spiritual practices; kinship structures and communities; and political and social theories and practices that negotiate the contradiction at the core of the uneven experience of US democracy. Sat