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AFRICAAM 217

Black Life, Culture, and the Emergence of the Field from Emancipation to the Present

UNITS:3-4
GRADING:Letter or Credit/No Credit
LEVEL:Graduate
GER:WAY-A-II

Beginning in post-1865 and ending in the present-day, this hybrid course examines African American life, history, culture and the development of the field of African American Studies. This interdisciplinary course will explore various historical, political, social, and artistic themes that impact our understanding of Black life and identity. This dual enrollment course is designed in partnership with the Department of African & African American Studies and Stanford Digital Education. Stanford students who have taken AFRICAAM AFRICAAM 105 should not enroll.

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AFRICAAM 217: Black Life, Culture, and the Emergence of the Field from Emancipation to the Present

3-4 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-A-II

Beginning in post-1865 and ending in the present-day, this hybrid course examines African American life, history, culture and the development of the field of African American Studies. This interdisciplinary course will explore various historical, political, social, and artistic themes that impact our understanding of Black life and identity. This dual enrollment course is designed in partnership with the Department of African & African American Studies and Stanford Digital Education. Stanford students who have taken AFRICAAM 105 should not enroll.

Offered in Winter 2027, Spring 2027 at Stanford University.

Winter 2027 sections

  • Lecture — TBA TBA (Graduate)

Spring 2027 sections

  • Lecture — TBA TBA (Graduate)

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  • AFRICAAM 208: Women of the Movement (AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 208, RELIGST 308)
  • AFRICAAM 210: Righteous Rage, Healing Justice: Contemporary Black Feminisms (AMSTUD 210, FEMGEN 210, TAPS 210)
  • AFRICAAM 212: How We Free Us: Activism and Community (SOC 112A, SOC 212A)
  • AFRICAAM 213: Culture and Revolution in Africa (COMPLIT 213, FRENCH 213E, GLOBAL 213, HISTORY 243E)
  • AFRICAAM 214: To Live for the People: Black Public History in the Bay Area (AMSTUD 214, FEMGEN 214)
  • AFRICAAM 215: Huckleberry Finn and its Afterlives (AMSTUD 216, ENGLISH 216)
  • AFRICAAM 221: Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126, RELIGST 141)
  • AFRICAAM 221C: Stanford Black Academic Lab: Community-Based Participatory Methods (AFRICAAM 488, CSRE 388, EDUC 221, EDUC 488, LINGUIST 276E)
  • AFRICAAM 227: African American English (CSRE 327, EDUC 227, LINGUIST 165A)
  • AFRICAAM 228: Foundations of African-American Studies II: New Approaches to the Field (AMSTUD 228)
  • AFRICAAM 235: Print on Purpose (DESIGN 236P)
  • AFRICAAM 238J: The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates (HISTORY 238J, HISTORY 338J)

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