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Course ID: | CMLT(AFAM)(AFST)(GEOG)(LACS) 4260/6260. 3 hours. | Course Title: | The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas | Course Description: | An exploration of the comparative dimensions of Black and Irish
experiences in the Atlantic world through the study of cultural
production from the United States, Africa, Britain, the
Caribbean, and Ireland. Special emphasis will be placed on the
relevance of the texts under discussion to contemporary society
around the world. | Oasis Title: | The Black and Green Atlantic | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | We will examine work by established and emerging scholars in
tandem with a broad range of texts––works of fiction,
autobiography, music, poetry, and cinema, etc. Several movies
and documentaries will be shown in class. Special emphasis will
be placed on the relevance of these texts to contemporary
society around the world. Our methodological approach will be
interdisciplinary, transnational, and transcultural in scope. In
addition to intensive reading, students will give one 10-15
minute presentation, a short essay based on the presentation
(4-6 pages), and a final essay (8-10 pages). There will be 5
quizzes in the semester. The course goals include the following:
first, students will draw comparisons between the Black and
Green Atlantics that go beyond the usual “influence” model, with
the ultimate aim of reaching a better understanding of
racialization processes in the transnational context. Second, in
the process of active participation in class discussions,
students will learn to hone their critical thinking skills, and
third, students will learn to apply those skills through
effective academic writing. | Topical Outline: | Suggested Topics Week by Week:
Week One The Black and Green Atlantic I.
Tues: The Black and Green Atlantic: An
Introduction.
Thurs: Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
READINGS Gilroy Chapters 1 & 2
Week Two The Black and Green Atlantic II.
Tues.: The Black and Green Atlantic
READINGS: Gilroy Chapters 3 & 4; David Lloyd.
Thurs.: The Black Atlantic Cont.
READINGS Gilroy Chapters 5 & 6
In-class quiz.
Week Three Irish Frederick Douglass
Tues.: Documentary Film: Frederick Douglass
and the White Negro.
Followed by discussion.
READINGS: Selections from Douglass, My Bondage,
My Freedom.
Thurs.: Douglass in Ireland
READINGS: Jenkins;* MacSweeney.**
Week Four Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O’Neill and
Irish
American Racial Performance.
Tues.: Movie: The Emperor Jones. Followed by
discussion.
READINGS: Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones
Thurs.: Eugene O’Neill and The Emperor Jones
READINGS: Robinson.*
Week Five Under the Imperial Gaze: Ireland and Jamaica
Tues: Froude, Carlyle and Mill on Ireland and
the Caribbean
READINGS: Selections from James Anthony
Froude’s The English in the West Indies,**
Thomas Carlyle, “The Negro Question,”** and
J.S. Mill, “England and Ireland.”**
Thurs.: Froude etc. cont.
READINGS: Malouf, Ch 1.
Week Six Revolutionaries, Renegades, and Redlegs
Tues.: In-class documentary film The Redlegs
(The Afro-Irish of Barbados.) Plus a film on
Montserrat’s “Black Irish.”
Thurs: In-class documentary film PBS’s Marcus
Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind followed
by lecture/discussion: The Irish Marcus Garvey
READINGS: Garvey, Selected Writings**; Malouf
Ch. 2
Week Seven Green Claude McKay
Tues: Banjo. PLUS Short movie clips on McKay’s
poetry.
READINGS: Claude McKay Banjo. Selected poetry.
Thurs.: The Irish Claude McKay
READINGS: McKay “How Black sees Green;”**
Malouf Ch. 3.
Week Eight Black Samuel Beckett
Tues.; Film: Waiting for Godot. Followed by
discussion.
READINGS: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Thurs.: Beckett and the Black Atlantic
READINGS: Naito*
Week Nine Irish Nationalism––Caribbean Poetics:
Tues. May 24th & Thurs. May 26th: Poetry in the
Black and Green
READINGS:
Poetry: Selections from the following poets: W.
B. Yeats, Derek
Walcott, Michael Collins, Marlene Nourbese
Philips, Eavan Boland.
Criticism: Malouf, “Epilogue;”
Malouf, “Transatlantic Fugue;” Letmann.
Week Ten Ireland to Africa
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Yeats, “The Second Coming” and other poems.
Week Eleven Africa to Ireland
Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind.
Friel. Translations
Week Twelve Celtic Caribbean
McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
Malouf Ch. 4.
Week Thirteen Sounds Black and Green
Music from Black 47; Afro-Celt Sound System.
Irish Reggae Band and more
READINGS: Quigley.*
Week Fourteen Black and Green on the Screen.
Film. Students will choose music/ films of the
Black and Green Atlantic.
READINGS: Malouf, Ch. 5.
Week Fifteen TBA.
Week Sixteen TBA
All readings marked with an asterisk (*) are in O’Neill and
Lloyd’s The Black and Green Atlantic. Those marked ** are
available on the course book. | |
Course ID: | GEOG 4620/6620. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. |
Course Title: | Advanced Economic Geography |
Course Description: | Advanced theoretical and empirical issues in economic geography, such as impacts of globalization, regional development, trade patterns, and labor issues. Topics will vary. |
Oasis Title: | Advanced Economic Geography |
Prerequisite: | GEOG 3620 or permission of department |
Semester Course Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Successful completion of this course will provide the following learning outcomes:
A basic understanding of the economic geography of the topic under consideration and
how this geography has been historically shaped
An ability to think critically about how this geography came about and its
implications for contemporary social, political, and cultural processes and
practices
A greater cognizance of the importance of understanding spatial relations in the
everyday functioning of economic geographies
This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:
Communicate effectively through writing. This is met by a series of writing
assignments associated with supplemental reading and data analysis.
Communicate effectively through speech. This is met by oral presentations,
discussion leading, and classroom participation.
Critical Thinking is central to the learning objectives of this class, and is
developed through homework assignments, lecture, classroom discussion, and inquiry-
based learning efforts.
Moral Reasoning (Ethics) is an important element of this course, as it explores
linkages among economies, polities, culture, and the forces of globalization.
Moral reasoning is developed through lectures, writing assignments, classroom
discussion, and inquiry-based learning activities. |
Topical Outline: | The ideology of economics: Neo-classical versus Marxist approaches
Methodological and ontological debates in economic geography
Approaches to practicing economic geography
Understanding political economy and geography of capitalism
Capital accumulation, uneven development, and regional growth
Discourses of Globalization
Economic Restructuring and the politics of Deindustrialization
Fordism and the Transition to post-Fordism?
Class, gender and the economy
Political Economy of the State |
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