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Academic Year 2000/2001
Caribbean Art and Afro-American Art to 1863
ARHA 266 FA
This historical survey begins with an introduction to the arts of Africa. It continues with a focus on Caribbean festival arts. These festivals include Trinidadian Carnival and the Jonkonnu Festivals of Jamaica and of
coastal North Carolina. We also
study Brooklyn Caribbean Day, using videotapes. A section on slave culture in the United States considers recent archeological evidence of the persistence of African material culture in slave society. This course may
be taken independently of AFAM268.
MAJOR READINGS
Sterling Stuckey, SLAVE CULTURE Course Packet, including: Bettelheim & Nunley, CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL ARTS Thompson, AFRICIAN ART IN MOTION Ferguson, UNCOMMON GROUND
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two hour exams and a final plus an 8-10 page term paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
A field trip to New York museums is part of the scheduled curriculum. ($25.00 fee). Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class,
they will be dropped from the class
list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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