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Imagining Africa
| Course Number: | AFRST 220 |
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| Title: | Imagining Africa |
| Day & Time 1: | TR 02:30PM 03:45PM |
| Instructor I: | Carter D |
| Credit: | 1.00 |
| Course Description: | The idea of Africa historically has served as a metaphor for exoticism, sexuality or savagery in western discourse. In the contemporary world, it has been imagined as the site of seemingly insoluble problems such as the collapse of the state, genocide & famine. Against this backdrop, the course explores colonial/neocolonial state structural and institutional hierarchies, related to the role of ideas of race, gender & class based inequalities in postcolonial societies, warfare, international humanitarian efforts and asymmetrical relationships between cultural traditions in Africa and the West. |
| Comments: | Open to Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, & 1st Years |
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