DAAS 2021!

November 9th, 4 - 5 pm

Zoom Passcode:  643814

Kwasi Ampene

• AAS206-001 “Hip Hop in Africa”
• AAS358-007 Black World Studies: “Symbolic Language and Communication in West African Visual and Performing Arts”
  

Stephen Ward

• AAS 498, “DAAS in Action—History and Future of Black Studies at UM”

Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang

• 290.003: “The Trickster Figure in West African Literature” (mini course)

Naomi André

• AAS 201 - “Introduction to Afroamerican Studies”

Jon Wells

• AAS104 - “African American History in the Nineteenth Century”

Scott Ellsworth

• AAS 248  - Crime, Race, and the Law
• AAS 290 - The Tulsa Race Massacre mini course

Howard Stein 

• AAS 460 - Africa and Post-war Development Theory and Policy
• Epid666/AAS

Magda Zaborowska

•  AAS 498 - “DAAS in Action: Reconstructing James Baldwin’s Legacy through Black Digital Studies”

Brian Klein

• AAS 103 - “Reconsidering African Environments”
• AAS 358 - “Institutions, Development, and the Environment in Africa”

Matthew Countryman

• AAS 262/HST 272 - “20th Century African American Social Movements”

Meg Sweeney

• AAS 317 - “Threads: What Does Clothing Have to Do with Race, Culture, Politics, and the Environment?”

Gabriel Ayoola

• AAS 126/AAS 518 - Elementary African Languages II Yoruba
• AAS 226/AAS 626 - Intermediate African Languages II Yoruba

Marko Mwipopo

• AAS 116 - Elementary Swahili II: Language and Culture | Section 001 | Section 002
• AAS 216 - Intermediate Swahili II 
  

Scott Poulson-Bryant

• AAS 232 - Survey of African American Cinema (“Stayin' Alive”)
• AAS 394 - Creative Nonfiction 

AAS 202 - Introduction to African Diasporic StudiesWinter 2021, Section 001 - Global Blackness

with Bénédicte Boisseron, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

Is the African Diaspora a concept or an actual geographical location? Is it singular or are there multiple African diasporas? What does diaspora have to do with the multi-lingual, multicultural continent of over fifty countries that make up Africa? What impact has Africa and its diaspora(s) had on the so-called “white” West and its development as a site of tremendous wealth and privilege? AAS 202 engages these questions by exploring the long historical, economic, and political relationships between "the West" (e.g., United States, Britain, France, and Germany) and selected countries in Africa and the diaspora (e.g., Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil, Mali, Liberia, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa). Topics include: pre-colonial African empires; the Middle Passage; child soldiers; public health; conflict minerals; slavery and resistance; migration; empire, colonialism, and post-colonialism; twentieth-century freedom movements; religion; and popular forms of cultural expression.

Remote/Online