Spring 2027 Black Studies Courses
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Fall 2026 Black Studies Courses
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Summer 2026 Black Studies Courses
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BLST 21155/HIST 21155 - Ancient Africa
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
11:30 AM EST- 2:05PM EST ( ONLINE )
1st Summer Session
June 1st - June 29th, 2026
Instructor: Professor Yarri Felber-Seligman
BLST/LALS 29700 - Brown Lives Matter: Racialization, Police Violence & the US Latin
Brown Lives Matter : Racialization, Police Violence and the US Latino/a/x Community
Tuesday & Thursday
11:00 AM EST- 2:25 PM EST ( ONLINE )
2nd Summer Session
July 6th - July 31st, 2026
Instructor : Professor Carlos Encina Oleart
BLST/ LALS 39600 - Queerness of Color: The Crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and Pol
Queerness of Color: The Crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and Political Bound
Tuesday & Thursday
11:00 AM EST- 2:25 PM EST ( ONLINE )
1st Summer Session
June 1st - June 29th, 2026
Instructor : Professor Carlos Encina Oleart
Spring 2026 Black Studies Courses
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BLST 31974: Witches, Brujas, Voudou: Exhuming the Voices & Histories of Africa
Mondays & Wednesdays,
3:30PM - 4:45PM
Hybrid
Instructor: Sheriden Booker, Ph.D.
Description
| In 2016, Puerto Rican rapper and Santer¿a priestess Princess Nokia (Destiny Frasqueri) released the song ?Brujas? capturing the spirit of a generation looking to exalt and reclaim the historically maligned spiritual legacies of African and indigenous women. Drawing on anthropology of religion texts as well as historical case--ranging from Tituba, the enslaved Native American women targeted in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; the little known ?Vodou Trials? of 1850?s New Orleans where Voudou priestesses publicly protested and fought the NOLA Police Department; the witch-hunts and yellow press in early 1900?s post-independence Cuba; to the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court Case Church of the Lukumi Babaluaye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, Florida; M¿e Stella de Oxossi?s induction into the Bahian Academy of Letters; and Beyonc¿'s Lemonade?this course will look at the ways African-based spiritual systems have been preserved, recreated, criminalized and re-legitimized within the context of enslavement, postcolonial nation building, contemporary race relations, and pop culture movements. We will explore how these processes have particularly impacted notions of feminine agency and gender roles within marginalized religious communities. Students will gain an introduction to various African-based religious systems including but not limited to Santeria (Lukumi), Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿, and Jamaican Obeah, and to the extent time allows, allied indigenous religions such as Curanderismo. (BLST 10200: African Heritage in the Caribbean & Brazil not required for enrollment, but is a suggested prerequisite to this course.) |
BLST 31974: Witches, Brujas, Voudou: Exhuming the Voices & Histories of Africa
Mondays & Wednesdays,
3:30PM - 4:45PM
Hybrid
Instructor: Sheriden Booker, Ph.D.
Description
| In 2016, Puerto Rican rapper and Santer¿a priestess Princess Nokia (Destiny Frasqueri) released the song ?Brujas? capturing the spirit of a generation looking to exalt and reclaim the historically maligned spiritual legacies of African and indigenous women. Drawing on anthropology of religion texts as well as historical case--ranging from Tituba, the enslaved Native American women targeted in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; the little known ?Vodou Trials? of 1850?s New Orleans where Voudou priestesses publicly protested and fought the NOLA Police Department; the witch-hunts and yellow press in early 1900?s post-independence Cuba; to the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court Case Church of the Lukumi Babaluaye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, Florida; M¿e Stella de Oxossi?s induction into the Bahian Academy of Letters; and Beyonc¿'s Lemonade?this course will look at the ways African-based spiritual systems have been preserved, recreated, criminalized and re-legitimized within the context of enslavement, postcolonial nation building, contemporary race relations, and pop culture movements. We will explore how these processes have particularly impacted notions of feminine agency and gender roles within marginalized religious communities. Students will gain an introduction to various African-based religious systems including but not limited to Santeria (Lukumi), Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿, and Jamaican Obeah, and to the extent time allows, allied indigenous religions such as Curanderismo. (BLST 10200: African Heritage in the Caribbean & Brazil not required for enrollment, but is a suggested prerequisite to this course.) |
Fall 2025 Black Studies Courses
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