What are we doing?
As colleagues and teachers we are reminded of what brought us to our work, and what keeps us together with mutual respect and shared obligation to our students.
In addition to our personal commitments and actions, we stand firm in what we do as a department and as individual teachers. In this moment we must continue to create spaces in which students embrace their societal, political, and intellectual responsibilities by merging their scholarly activities with public discussion and organizational activism.
Barnard College’s Africana Studies faculty and administrators stand firm and resolute with the knowledge that we are not alone. Africana Studies is a member of the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies, along with American Studies and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Africana Studies. Together, CCIS courses model collaboration and community, and interdisciplinarity. With our colleagues in CCIS we work to hold our College to its pledge to continue to diversify our community equitably and to offer our students a curriculum that engages “intellectual risk-taking and discovery.”
Below, you will see a list of Africana and cross-listed courses for Fall 2020 and the pressing issues that they address. While each course approaches the issues that it addresses in an intersectional way, we have highlighted those foregrounded by the professors.
Sharing Knowledge, Enabling Informed Argument, Inspiring Action
All Africana and cross-listed courses aim to help students understand the relation between the methodological approaches within Africana Studies and lived experiences.
Fall 2020 Africana Courses that Address the Violence of Present and Historical Systemic Racism and the Historical Preconditions of the Present Moment
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- Introduction to African American History (lecture)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution (seminar)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Introduction to African History (lecture)—Professor Abosede George
- Shange Digital Storytelling (seminar)—Professor Kim Hall
- Before ‘Black Lives Matter’ (seminar)—Professor Yvette Christiansë
- Home to Harlem (English department seminar)—Professor Monica Miller
Structures of Dominance
- Caribbean Digital (seminar)—Professor L. Kaiama Glover
- Introduction to African American History (lecture)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution (seminar)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Introduction to African History (lecture)—Professor Abosede George
- Shange Digital Storytelling (seminar)—Professor Kim Hall
- Before ‘Black Lives Matter’ (seminar)—Professor Yvette Christiansë
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Home to Harlem (English Department seminar)—Professor Monica Miller
Present Manifestations/Representations of the Forces & Compulsions of Historical Preconditions
- Africana Senior Seminar—Professor Colin Leach
- Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution (seminar)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Real Time/Real Talk (seminar)—Professor Yvette Christiansë
- Caribbean Culture and Societies (seminar)—Professor Maja Horn
- Before ‘Black Lives Matter’ (1 credit seminar)—Professor Yvette Christiansë
Racial Formation and Racial Capitalism
- Poor in America (seminar)—Professor Rose Razaghian
- Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution (seminar)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Caribbean Culture and Societies (seminar)—Professor Maja Horn
Uneven Distribution of Poverty and Risk/Political Economy
- Poor in America (seminar)—Professor Rose Razaghian
- Introduction to African American History (lecture)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Remembering Slavery: Critiquing Modern Representations of the Peculiar Institution (seminar)—Professor Celia Naylor
- Introduction to African History (lecture)—Professor Abosede George
- Caribbean Culture and Societies (seminar)— Professor Maja Horn
Inequitable Health Care and Access to Social Resources
- Poor in America (seminar)—Professor Rose Razaghian
Expressive Traditions of Racially Minoritized Subjects Who Have Engaged the Problems of Hemispheric American Societies
- Shange Digital Storytelling—Professor Kim Hall
- Before ‘Black Lives Matter’—Professor Yvette Christiansë
- Introduction to African History (lecture)—Professor Abosede George
- Caribbean Diaspora Literature in New York (seminar)—Professor Maja Horn
- Francophone Fictions (Seminar)—Professor Kaiama Glover
- Home to Harlem (English Department seminar)—Professor Monica Miller
The Relations Between American Radicalization and Other Formations of Difference in the Global South
- Caribbean Cultures and Society—Professor Maja Horn
- Caribbean Digital—Professor Kaiama Glover
- Francophone Fictions—Professor Kaiama Glover
- Blackness in French—Professor Kaiama Glover
- Before ‘Black Lives Matter’—Professor Yvette Christiansë
African and African Diasporic Contributions to Critiquing the Social, Economic, Political and Aesthetic Dimensions of Inequality
- All Africana courses
Subjective Experience of Racialization
- All Africana courses
SPRING 2021 - PROJECTED COURSE OFFERINGS
- THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM AFRS 3110 - Celia Naylor
- BLK SEXUAL PLTCS U.S POP CLTR - Celia Naylor
- BLACKNESS IN FRENCH Kaiama Glover
- CARIBBEAN SEXUALITY - Maja Horn
- ROMARE BEARDEN – Deidra Harris-Kelley
- BLACK WOMEN, PERFORMANCE & POLITICS OF STYLE – Shirley Taylor
- DESIGN 2 – Kadambari Baxi
- GENDER, SEXUALITY, POWER IN AFRICA HISTORY - Abosede George
- FRANCOPHONE FICTION: DISORDERLY WOMEN, HAITI, HISTORY AND LITERATURE - Kaiama Glover
- HARLEM & MOSCOW - Jeniffer Wilson
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