3 credits A review of the most important theoretical issues in African-American anthropology, including Africanisms, the family, matrifocality, and religion, with the reading of ethnographic studies of African Americans in the United States. International dimensions of curriculum are examined. 3 credits An examination of problems and aspirations of certain major philosophical thinkers in the Afro-American tradition. In-depth analysis of protest in the United States and its effect on politics and culture. Theories of gender and race differences as well as cultural myths, hegemony, and personal, political and religious power are examined.
Emphasis is placed on cross-cultural comparisons.
3 credits An analysis of the social, historical, anthropological, and human geographical features of nineteenth-century China and Japan and overseas Chinese and Japanese communities in the Occident.