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Graduate Topics in African American Studies (480-0-20)

Topic

Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian Settler C

Instructors

Nitasha Tamar Sharma
847/467-6589
Crowe Hall 1-127

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 223: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course examines the conversations between, within, and across Ethnic Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. What are the central paradigms of Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian American Studies and how do they conceptualize relationships among race, indigeneity, diaspora, immigration, White supremacy, and settler colonialism? This course prioritizes writing that addresses these questions relationally through sections on Black and Native histories of exchange in the US, theories of Asian/Indigenous relationships and land, race and indigeneity in the Pacific, and current debates across Black and Native Studies and on the question of slavery, settler colonialism, and nonBlack people of color in North America.