AFRC2220 - African Women's Lives: Past and Present

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
African Women's Lives: Past and Present
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2220401
Course number integer
2220
Meeting times
T 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Pamela Blakely
Description
Restoring women to African history is a worthy goal, but easier said than done.The course examines scholarship over the past forty years that brings to light previously overlooked contributions African women have made to political struggle, religious change, culture preservation, and economic development from pre-colonial times to present. The course addresses basic questions about changing women's roles and human rights controversies associated with African women within the wider cultural and historical contexts in which their lives are lived. It also raises fundamental questions about sources, methodology, and representation, including the value of African women's oral and written narrative and cinema production as avenues to insider perspectives on African women's lives.
Course number only
2220
Cross listings
GSWS2220401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC2219 - ‘Global Inequalities’: A Comparative History of Caste and Race.

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
‘Global Inequalities’: A Comparative History of Caste and Race.
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2219401
Course number integer
2219
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Ketaki Umesh Jaywant
Description
Can we deploy a comparative lens to understand the categories of caste and race better? Does their juxtaposition illuminate new facets of these two structures of ‘global inequalities’? The course seeks to explore these questions by systematically studying how both caste and racial institutions, structures, and identities were historically produced, transformed, and challenged through their global circulation from the nineteenth-century to the present. Caste and race have been old co-travelers, and their various points of intersection can be traced at least to the nineteenth century. And so, in this course we will embark upon a historical adventure, one replete with stories of violence, political intrigue, intense emotions, as also episodes of incandescent resistance. Together, we will trace the genealogy of how modern categories of ‘caste’ and ‘race’ were systematically composed by colonial knowledge production, orientalist writings, and utilitarian discourse, both in Europe and the colonies. While colonialism and the global hegemony of European modernity were crucial to the co-constitution and the circulation of caste and race, anti-caste and anti-race politics too have historically brought a unique comparative lens to these two categories. And so, this course will also include a close analysis of critical works on caste and race by activists and intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the present from all over the world.
Taking our key question about the comparative study of caste and race as out point of departure, the course will interrogate this juxtaposition by closely studying some crucial analytical grounds commonly shared by the two structures in question. We will explore the intersections, exchanges, and divergences between caste and race by approaching them from the perspective of violence, colonialism, Slavery and Abolition, mid-twentieth century writings in American and South Asian politics, experience and testimonios, and subaltern international solidarities.
Course number only
2219
Cross listings
GSWS2219401, SAST2219401, SOCI2970401
Use local description
No

AFRC2162 - Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule: History & Practice of Reparations in the African Diaspora (ABCS course)

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule: History & Practice of Reparations in the African Diaspora (ABCS course)
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2162401
Course number integer
2162
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Breanna Moore
Description
How did enslaved people and their descendants conceptualize reparations? What strategies did they employ to achieve them? How do present day movements for reparations seek to address historic harms? This ABCS course will examine the history of reparations advocacy amongst enslaved Africans and their descendants from the inception of the trans-Atlantic traffic in enslaved people to present day. This action-oriented course will explore the root of reparations - repair - and the historical and current strategies that people are employing, both nationally and globally, to advance racial and reparatory justice for descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States. By situating reparatory justice initiatives in the context of the African diaspora, the course will examine demands, goals, implementation plans, and organizing methods used by the descendants of enslaved Africans for the harms and legacies of slavery and colonization. Penn students will travel to Science Leadership Academy at Beeber once a week for ten weeks. *History Majors may write a 15-20 page research paper for the final project to fulfill the History Major research requirement.*
Course number only
2162
Cross listings
HIST2162401
Use local description
No

AFRC2161 - The Civil Rights Movement

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The Civil Rights Movement
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2161401
Course number integer
2161
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
William Sturkey
Description
This course will examine the classical phase of the African American Civil Rights Movement between the years 1954 and 1968. Focusing primarily on the American South, this class will explore the nature of Jim Crow-era racial segregation and the origins and effects of the massive rise in social protests that fundamentally reshaped race in the United States of America and influenced social and political movements across the world. We will study iconic civil rights campaigns and legendary figures, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 1964 Freedom Summer, and Fannie Lou Hamer, while also closely examining the activism of lesser-known actors and analyzing how dramatic racial alterations affected the lives of everyday people.
Course number only
2161
Cross listings
HIST2161401
Use local description
No

AFRC2159 - The History of Family Separation

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The History of Family Separation
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2159401
Course number integer
2159
Meeting times
M 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Hardeep Dhillon
Description
This course examines the socio-legal history of family separation in the United States. From the period of slavery to the present-day, the United States has a long history of separating and remaking families. Black, Indigenous, poor, disabled, and immigrant communities have navigated the precarious nature of family separation and the legal regime of local, state, and federal law that substantiated it. In this course, we will trace how families have navigated domains of family separation and the reasoning that compelled such separation in the first place. Through an intersectional focus that embraces race, class, disability, and gender, we will underline who has endured family separation and how such separation has remade the very definition of family in the United States.
Course number only
2159
Cross listings
ASAM2159401, GSWS2159401, HIST2159401
Use local description
No

AFRC2010 - Social Statistics

Status
X
Activity
REC
Section number integer
405
Title (text only)
Social Statistics
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
405
Section ID
AFRC2010405
Course number integer
2010
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
undergraduate
Description
This course offers a basic introduction to the application/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
Course number only
2010
Cross listings
SOCI2010405
Fulfills
Quantitative Data Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC2010 - Social Statistics

Status
X
Activity
REC
Section number integer
404
Title (text only)
Social Statistics
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
404
Section ID
AFRC2010404
Course number integer
2010
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
undergraduate
Description
This course offers a basic introduction to the application/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
Course number only
2010
Cross listings
SOCI2010404
Fulfills
Quantitative Data Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC2010 - Social Statistics

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
Social Statistics
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
403
Section ID
AFRC2010403
Course number integer
2010
Meeting times
R 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Nazar Khalid
Description
This course offers a basic introduction to the application/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
Course number only
2010
Cross listings
SOCI2010403
Fulfills
Quantitative Data Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC2010 - Social Statistics

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Social Statistics
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
402
Section ID
AFRC2010402
Course number integer
2010
Meeting times
R 9:00 AM-9:59 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Nazar Khalid
Description
This course offers a basic introduction to the application/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
Course number only
2010
Cross listings
SOCI2010402
Fulfills
Quantitative Data Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC2010 - Social Statistics

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Social Statistics
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2010401
Course number integer
2010
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Description
This course offers a basic introduction to the application/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
Course number only
2010
Cross listings
SOCI2010401
Fulfills
Quantitative Data Analysis
Use local description
No