The course aims to provide an anthropological framework for understanding cultural production and meaning through time in black communities in the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. Distinctiveness as well as commonalities in social and cultural patterning among African diaspora peoples are discussed within the context of the historical and structural conditions that created and continue to engender a diasporic black consciousness. Illustrative material is drawn from popular culture, ethnographies of black family and community life, life histories, and other sources. This course is the same as Anthropology 150 and African American Studies 150. Interdisciplinary involves more than a meeting of disciplines.
Practitioners stretch methodological norms and reach across disciplinary boundaries.
Through examination of a single topic, this course introduces students to interdisciplinary methods of analysis. Students examine what practitioners actually do and work to become practitioners themselves. This course is the same as African American Studies 250 and Women's Studies 250. Required of African American studies, American cultural studies and women's studies majors. Independent study of selected topics by individual students.