AFRICAN-AMERICAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

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Prerequisite:ANTH 1100 or SOCY 1100 or Permission of Instructor. Open to juniors and seniors only.This course examines Black English Vernacular language forms and strategies and a range of other cultural practices (worship, familial structure, economic reciprocity, and expressive arts) in the context of their relationship to a West African past, the imperatives of adaptation in America after the middle passage, and the interrelatedness of all aspects of the cultural matrix.Faculty: L. NELSON