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2014 - 2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014 - 2015 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AMST 518 - Material Life in African America


Fall 3 Gundaker

This seminar explores the world of things that African Americans have made and made their own in what is now the United States from the colonial era through the present. Topics include landscapes of enslavement and freedom, labor practices, architecture, foodways, objects, aesthetics, contexts of production and use, and the theories of material life, expression, and culture through which these topics are studied. (Not offered 2013-2014) Cross-listed with [ANTH 530 ]