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21G.025

Africa and the Politics of Knowledge

3-0-9 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

See description under subject 21A.135[J] . Enrollment limited.

Spring 2019

Topics

  • Making knowledge, ordering the world (I)
  • Maps, power, and knowledge
  • Mapping Africa
  • Restoring African histories: Afrocentrism
  • Guest presentation and workshop by professional Vodou dance practitioner and Vodou priest, Jean-Sébastien Duvilaire
  • Remembering
  • Blackness and Otherness
  • Blackness in Africa
  • The Black African body (II)
  • Africa and / in the world after independence (I)
  • Africa and / in the world after independence (II)
  • Modernization theory and Africa
  • Structural adjustment programs
  • The New Africa
  • Africa as the future
  • In-class research and discussion
  • Afropolitanism and its discontents
  • Final paper presentations

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 21A.135[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units. HASS-S

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