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AF AM S 1261 Africa in the 20th Century
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 18th, 2009
A summary of the major political, economic, social and cultural developments in Africa since 1900. The impact of indigenous and foreign philosophies on industrialization, urbanizatiion and peasantization during the 20th century.
AF AM S 1268 Afro-American History Since 1900
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 02nd, 2009
That politic and reverential quality of African-Americans who have perdured. A general treatment of the turbulent 20th century: KKK, the anti-lynching campaigns, northern migratiion, the Marcus Garvey Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and Civil Rights
AF AM S 1296 Intro. African-American St.
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 02nd, 2009
An Introduction to the field. The history, philosophic and pedagogical basis, methodology, and relevance of African American Studies within a liberal arts education.
AF AM S 2100: Special Topics (Af Am Studies)
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 29th, 2009
Subject entries and special topics for composite essays.
AF AM S 8001 Proseminar African American Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 01st, 2009
References for initializing your search for African American Studies: Course 8001
AF AM S 8003 Research Methods in AfAm Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 01st, 2009
Selected and operational criteria for civil rights, ethnicity and black studies research
AF-AM S 8002 African Civilizations
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 01st, 2009
African history, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan continent, and nation-making of the latter 20th century
AF-AM S 2251 Mass Media in the Black Community
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 01st, 2009
An examination of the role mm plays in the African American community. Ownership, access, and image making, are a few of the topics discussed. The aim is to develop an appreciation and awareness of the role media play in constructing opinions.
AF-AM S 8547: Rdgs. in 1960s Protests
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 11th, 2009
Literature background to the Black revolutionary movement
African American Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 09th, 2009
to provide an intellectual arena in which students learn to critically examine, analyze, interpret and affect the experiences, traditions, and dynamics of people of African descent and by extension, develop a fuller understanding of humankind.
Tags: africanamerican studies
African Americans & Race
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 16th, 2009
The ever present stigmatization of color and skin in the American Experience.
Tags: africanamericanhealth
African Philosophy
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 27th, 2009
Resources for African Philosophy:faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates studying/ teaching philosophy, particularly African Philosophy, and its foundation as a conduit to European and American thought, and as the origin of other philosophies.
Tags: anthropology construction gnosis of race
African-Caribbean Philosophizing
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 18th, 2009
relational qualities of African-sage philosophy and the poeticist and narrative qualities of non-European thinking
Africana Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 13th, 2009
Africana Studies impinges upon the decolonization of the imperial, Eurocentric cartographies in the Americas, and its intellectual and cultural conquests from 15th century to the present.
Tags: africana africanamerican bicentenary skeletomania slavery war women
Allegories for America
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 22nd, 2009
Cultural and philosophical themes--some indigenous to the Americas
American Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 17th, 2009
American Studies focus on the examination of American culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. We look for the central themes of American life-- labor, mobility, migration, art, play--not restricting ourselves to disciplinary boundaries.
Asian Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 27th, 2009
The theoretical configuration of Southeast Asia studies and Near East (Asia) studies, interdisciplinary fashion. Includes Asian American studies, Orientalism and Asian studies
Tags: interdisciplinary orientalism
Asian-American Studies
by Albert Vara - last updated on Jul 10th, 2009
That configuratiion of scholarly disciplines subtended by a minority stature when aligned with the population at large of a precisely delineated geographical context; in this case: self-identified individuals as "Asian" by U.S. Census rubrics.
Tags: asian asian-american
Black Power/Civil Rights
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 05th, 2009
The 1960s -- before and after
Tags: africanamerican civil politics racism rights
Liberia
by Albert Vara - last updated on Oct 29th, 2009
The establishment and growth of an external America: the findings of this oldest African republic
Liberian Studies Association
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 12th, 2009
overseas TU site for students and facultyIn process
Vietnamese Culture and Society: Temple University
by Albert Vara - last updated on Nov 13th, 2009
The Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University was founded in September, 2004. As a national center for scholarly research, educational training, and mutual understanding, the Center sponsors a range of programs on Vietnam
Tags: asianews




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