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SOC321

Black Immigrant Narratives

Subject code

SOC

Course Number

321

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

M. Medford

Course Long Title

Black Immigrant Narratives

Description

Black immigrants occupy a liminal space on the race-ethnicity spectrum. This seminar interrogates this peculiar dilemma by drawing on the cases of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and African immigrants to the United States. Students explore how first- and second-generation immigrants construct their identity and define their relationship to blackness. They examine the role of ethnic conflict, cultural performativity, nationality, political and class ideologies, transnationalism, and citizenship status on immigrants’ everyday lives. Prerequisite(s): SOC 204 or 205.

Writing Credit

W2

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years