When Africana Studies Meets Public Health

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course introduces students to research topics and primary concepts at the intersection of Africana Studies and public health. Drawing widely from accounts of anthropologists, historians, artists, physicians, journalists, philosophers, and epidemiologists, students will learn to use narrative accounts and concepts from the medical humanities to expand their understanding of how biosocial, medical, and ethical realities actively shape each other. Additionally, this course provides a historically grounded approach to thinking about the roles that race, gender, sexuality, geography, and other identity scripts have played in shaping healthcare — and the communities most affected by its failures and possibilities.