{"id":4,"date":"2019-09-03T18:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:48:42","slug":"course-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"page-item-title\">AFRS 1109\/ENGL 1301\/GSWS 1301<\/h3>\n<p>In conjunction with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/alumni-families\/events-and-programs\/afam50.html\">fiftieth anniversary of Africana studies at Bowdoin<\/a>, this yearlong, two-part course will address debates and issues of Africana studies through the lives of black women. In Part I, students will focus on early Africana studies texts, reading works by and about Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper, Ida B. Wells, and Anna Julia Cooper. We will take up differences and continuities between these thinkers to understand the politics of respectability, work, representation, sexuality, and family across multiple historical contexts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2019\/09\/afam50-header.jpg\" alt=\"fiftieth anniversary of Africana studies at Bowdoin\" width=\"800\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2019\/09\/afam50-header.jpg 800w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2019\/09\/afam50-header-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2019\/09\/afam50-header-768x304.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 85vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRS 1109\/ENGL 1301\/GSWS 1301 In conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of Africana studies at Bowdoin, this yearlong, two-part course will address debates and issues of Africana studies through the lives of black women. In Part I, students will focus on early Africana studies texts, reading works by and about Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Course Description&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}