The Program in Africana encompasses the study of world making in Africa and its global diaspora. The program faculty embrace a progressive interdisciplinary approach, foregrounding Blackness, white supremacy, and anti-blackness. Courses emphasize the dynamics of unequal power, the production of culture and aesthetics, and the formation of personal and group identity. The program aims to enrich knowledge of the peoples of Africa and its global diaspora, whether in conditions of freedom or unfreedom. Students of Africana work to understand race as an intersectional concept constituted by gender, sexuality, ability, and class, among other social locations, as well as the global movement of ideas, including secular practices, intellectual traditions, religion and spirituality, and social formations of African-descended peoples. Africana prepares students for a range of careers, including research and teaching, public policy, law, advocacy and community work, and artistic production and curation.

Requisites

The minor in Africana requires six courses. Courses taken for the minor must include:

1) Introductory course(s).
One of the following:

AFR 100	Introduction to Africana
INDS 100	African Perspectives on Justice, Human Rights, and Renewal

or two courses from the following list:

AFR 162	White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History
AFR 249	African American Popular Music
AMST/ANTH207	Race, Racism and Redress
AMST/AVC 288	Visualizing Race
BIO 128	Out of the Sea
EDUC/SOC 242	Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Equality in American Education
FYS 468	Beyond Nelson Mandela: Themes and Personalities in South African History

2) One course that centers on gender, which may include any of the following courses, or one of the courses linked to below:

AFR 201	Race, Ethnicity, Feminist Thought
AFR 202	Coming of Age While Black
AFR 257	African American Women’s History
AFR 265	Toni Morrison
AFR 302	Black Feminist Traditions
AFR 303	Birthing While Black
AFR 325	Black Feminist Literary Theory and Practice

Courses in Non-Africana departments and programs that fulfill the Gender Requirement can be found here.

3) One course that center on diaspora, which may include any of the following courses, or one of the non-Africana Programs linked to below:

AFR 119	Cultural Politics
AFR 202	Coming of Age While Black
AFR 221	Sociology of Immigration
AFR 223	Literatures of the Caribbean
AFR 233	African Religions and Literature
AFR 239	Anti-Blackness and the Environment
AFR 265	Toni Morrison
AFR 268	Survey Literatures of Africana
AFR 269	Narrating Slavery
AFR 280	Health and Healing in Africa
AFR 301E	Black Struggle vs. American Slavery
AFR 302	Black Feminist Traditions
AFR 320	Immigrant Racialization
AFR 321	Afroambiente
AFR 325	Black Feminist Literary Theory and Practice
AFRS11	Bordering Hispaniola
AFRS14	Disaster Displacement Diaspora

Courses in Non-Africana departments and programs that fulfill the Diaspora Requirement can be found here.

4) One junior-senior seminar.