Black Studies

2026–2027

37 courses

BLST 0213Counternarratives: Black Historical Fictions
BLST 1160The Making of the Black Atlantic, 1400-1900
BLST 1272Funk: Black Dance Music in the Age of Liberation
BLST 1399African Diasporic Art
BLST 1918Is That Racist?: Theory and Methods for Diagnosing and Demonstrating Racism
BLST 1952Topics in Contemporary Social Theory
BLST 1964The Politics of "The Wire": HBO's Portrayal of the American City
BLST 1986Contesting Injustice
BLST 2213Medicine and Race in the Slave Trade
BLST 2216Detroit: Race, Sound, and the American City
BLST 2222The Empire Sings Back: Popular Music and Cultural Resistance in Africa and Portugal
BLST 2244The Politics of Crime and Punishment in American Cities
BLST 2289Counternarratives: Black Historical Fictions
BLST 2359Education and Empire
BLST 2753Jazz in Transition, 1960–2000
BLST 2777Musical Pan-Africanisms
BLST 3165What is Racial Capitalism?
BLST 3222Coming of Age in Black Literature
BLST 3312The Sound of Freedom: Seeing Contemporary South Africa Through Sound
BLST 3344Black Exhibition Histories
BLST 3372Post Black Art and Beyond
BLST 3498Abolitionist University Studies
BLST 3820James Baldwin's American Scene
BLST 4249Challenges to Realism in Contemporary African Fiction
BLST 4357Racial Republic: African Diasporic Literature and Culture in Postcolonial France
BLST 5005Theorizing Racial Formations
BLST 7107What Is An Archive?
BLST 7119Researching and Writing Histories of Health, Medicine, and Science
BLST 7174Readings in Atlantic Slavery
BLST 7197Atlantic Abolitions
BLST 7221Readings in US Urban History
BLST 7458Black Economics: History, Methods, Politics
BLST 7681The Portuguese Black Atlantic (1420s–2020s): History, Literature, Film
BLST 7978Research Topics in Racial Justice in Public Safety
BLST 8095Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
BLST 9129The Afterlives of Slavery, Health, and Medicine
BLST 9347Black Existentialisms