Students will be discussing their personal experience with art including dancing, singing, painting, writing poetry, etc. They will be introduced to a few examples of artistic expression from Deaf individuals and asked to analyze these performances.
Forced to leave the continent of Africa in droves during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, millions of persons of African descent were dispersed throughout the world during the “African Diaspora.” This course introduces students to key theoretical and conceptual debates in African diaspora studies. The course adopts a comparative approach that exposes students to the thought and experiences of descendants of enslaved Africans in various locations throughout the world. Students will examine similarities and differences between the complex histories and diverse cultural expressions of persons of African descent in the Diaspora during the antebellum period, the World Wars, and contemporary times. Attention will be devoted to the African Diaspora in the city of Houston.