BST Course Information

Addresses contemporary black presence & experience across Western European nation-states, beginning with the West's enslavement, occupation, and colonization of West Africa in the 15th Century. 

Explore concepts of Blackness & science fiction, speculative fiction & fantastical genres. Immerse in the ways Blackness in the past, present, future & alternative universes has reshaped the world.

Class surveys the geography, history, culture, politics, gender, sexuality, race, class, national and intersectional identities of the people of the Spanish speaking Caribbean.

An introduction to African American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginnings of the “Black Arts” movement. It is the second in a three-part survey of African-American literature.

Course will examine the historical, philosophical, political, and socio-economic underpinnings of slavery and freedom from the European trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved people to the present.
 

Explores the concept of Multiraciality & what it means to be of African descent within the Multiracial Experience in the US through literature, documentaries, popular culture and academic articles. 

Why the fuss? What drives our appetite to study blackness? What fuels this search? We’ll examine the legacies of this probing gaze and black refusals of surveillance, subverting being seen at all.

Explores African women's diverse and dynamic history, focusing on their social, political, economic, and cultural roles from ancient to modern times.

An examination of racial public policy in the evolution of American History and development in the years between the creation of the US Constitution in 1789 and the beginning of the 20th Century.

Ever had the sense that there’s more to the world than the cards we’ve been dealt? In this class, we’ll use black theory to unearth myths and shattered realities, reshaping the world as we know it.