AFAM courses
175 courses · Wesleyan University · Fall 2026
- AFAM 101 — Introduction to Africana Studies: Black Radical Thought and Praxis1 section
- AFAM 112F — Reading Black Culture1 section
- AFAM 115F — Freedom School1 section
- AFAM 116F — The Black Radical Tradition (or Black Radicalism)1 section
- AFAM 122F — Race and Identity in 21st Century Literature1 section
- AFAM 141F — The Revolutionary Rupture: Slavery, Latifundio & Rev. in Caribbean & Lat. Amer. Lit. & Cinema1 section
- AFAM 152F — Staging America: Modern American Drama1 section
- AFAM 171F — The Prison State: Race, Law, and Mass Incarceration in U.S. History1 section
- AFAM 175F — The Black Atlantic, A Religious Interpretation1 section
- AFAM 177 — Introduction to Black Religions in the Americas1 section
- AFAM 177F — August Wilson1 section
- AFAM 179F — Not Like Us: Religion, Race, Pop Culture1 section
- AFAM 189F — LGBTQ, or LGBT Who? Race, Sexuality, and Community in 20th-century U.S. History1 section
- AFAM 202 — Introduction to African American Literature1 section
- AFAM 203 — African American History, 1444-18771 section
- AFAM 204 — Introduction to Modern African American History1 section
- AFAM 208 — History of African American Art1 section
- AFAM 209 — Digital and Visual Storytelling1 section
- AFAM 210 — Black Women and the Sacred1 section
- AFAM 211 — Critical Philosophy of Race1 section
- AFAM 212 — Modern Africa1 section
- AFAM 213 — Abolition Geographies1 section
- AFAM 214 — Postcolonial Religion: Pentecostalism and the Global South1 section
- AFAM 216 — A Small Place1 section
- AFAM 217 — Empires, Slavery, and Revolution: Africa to 18001 section
- AFAM 219 — "The History that Hurts": Reading Saidiya Hartman1 section
- AFAM 220 — Poetics of Blackness1 section
- AFAM 221 — The African Novel1 section
- AFAM 222 — Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital1 section
- AFAM 223 — Anthropology and (Anti)-Blackness1 section
- AFAM 224F — Afrofuturism1 section
- AFAM 225 — The African Novel II: After Achebe1 section
- AFAM 226 — Afro-Surrealism1 section
- AFAM 228Z — Thinking with Octavia Butler's "Wild Seed"1 section
- AFAM 229 — Reading Toni Morrison: Blackness and the Literary Imagination1 section
- AFAM 230F — Marxism and Abolitionism1 section
- AFAM 232 — Black and Indigenous Foundations of U.S. Society1 section
- AFAM 233 — All Ah We: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Drama & Performance1 section
- AFAM 234 — Black Labor and Working-Class History1 section
- AFAM 235 — Activism and Theories of Change1 section
- AFAM 236 — Introduction to Postcolonial Studies1 section
- AFAM 237 — Technologies of the Self1 section
- AFAM 238 — Imperial Education: Colonial Template1 section
- AFAM 240 — From the Banjo to Dembow: Afro-Caribbean Music in Motion1 section
- AFAM 241 — Ebony Singers: Gospel Music1 section
- AFAM 242 — Intimate Histories: Black Women's Sexuality1 section
- AFAM 243 — Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora1 section
- AFAM 244 — Girlfriend, Sister, Self: 20th-c. Black Women's Writing1 section
- AFAM 246 — Black Feminisms in the Americas: Politics, Representation, and Queer Ruminations of Elsewhere1 section
- AFAM 248 — Race, Ethnicity, and Popular Music1 section
- AFAM 249 — Sacred and Secular African American Musics1 section
- AFAM 250 — Integrative Learning Project 1: Crafting Your Digital Identity1 section
- AFAM 251 — Communicating Racial Justice1 section
- AFAM 252 — Not Like Us: Religion, Race, Pop Culture1 section
- AFAM 254 — The History of Race and Sex in America1 section
- AFAM 256 — A Celebration of Women in Jazz: A Critical Analysis of Gender1 section
- AFAM 257 — System Mapping for Social and Environmental Impact1 section
- AFAM 259 — Queer of Color Critique1 section
- AFAM 260 — On Evidence: Archives, Museums, and Prisons1 section
- AFAM 261 — Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers1 section
- AFAM 262 — Jazz Technique1 section
- AFAM 263 — Critical Race and Art History: Theories and Methods1 section
- AFAM 264 — "Before the 'Body' there is the 'Flesh'": Reading Hortense Spillers1 section
- AFAM 265 — Music and Downtown New York1 section
- AFAM 266 — Black Performance Theory1 section
- AFAM 267 — The Caribbean in Relation1 section
- AFAM 268 — Caribbean Geographies1 section
- AFAM 269 — Pessimism, Nihilism, and Black Literature1 section
- AFAM 270 — Carceral Connecticut: Policing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the "Land of Steady Habits"1 section
- AFAM 271 — The Prison State: Race, Law, and Mass Incarceration in U.S. History1 section
- AFAM 272 — History of Jazz in American Culture1 section
- AFAM 273 — BlaQueer Sounds: Queer Negotiations in African American Music1 section
- AFAM 274 — Feeling Black Feminism1 section
- AFAM 275 — Feeling Black Feminism1 section
- AFAM 276 — Intertextual Aesthetics in African American Culture: From Signifyin(g) to Sampling1 section
- AFAM 277 — Defining Black Repair1 section
- AFAM 278 — Race & Slavery in New England1 section
- AFAM 278F — Race & Slavery in New England1 section
- AFAM 279 — Award-Winning Playwrights1 section
- AFAM 279Z — Award-Winning Playwrights1 section
- AFAM 280 — Religion and the Social Construction of Race1 section
- AFAM 281 — Writing Fiction1 section
- AFAM 282 — Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir1 section
- AFAM 282F — Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir1 section
- AFAM 283 — Reading Against "The Propaganda of History": Reading W. E. B. Du Bois1 section
- AFAM 284 — The Sociology of Reality TV: Race, Colorism, and Xenophobia1 section
- AFAM 285 — Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World1 section
- AFAM 286 — Harlem Renaissance Literature1 section
- AFAM 287 — Psychology and the Law1 section
- AFAM 288 — Aesthetics and Race1 section
- AFAM 288Z — "Writing Should Do Something": The Essays of James Baldwin1 section
- AFAM 289 — Eating the Other: Critical Perspectives on Difference and Desire1 section
- AFAM 291 — Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas1 section
- AFAM 291Z — Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas1 section
- AFAM 292 — Doing Blackness: Performance Studies and Theorizing Black Identity1 section
- AFAM 298 — Richard Wright and Company1 section
- AFAM 299 — Medicine and Healing in the Black Atlantic1 section
- AFAM 300 — Black Phoenix Rising: Death and Resurrection of Black Lives1 section
- AFAM 301 — Junior Colloquium: Defining African American Studies1 section
- AFAM 303 — 1492: States of War1 section
- AFAM 304 — Black Feminist and Trans Theories of the Hu/Man1 section
- AFAM 305 — Lyric Poetry and Music: The Color and Politics of Cry, Sound, and Voice1 section
- AFAM 306 — Black Middletown Lives: Documenting and Commemorating Those Enslaved Here1 section
- AFAM 307 — Black Middletown Lives: The Future of Middletown's African American Past1 section
- AFAM 309 — Indentured Spatialities1 section
- AFAM 311 — Vitalism and Black Aesthetics1 section
- AFAM 312 — Black Speculative Fictions and the Anthropocene1 section
- AFAM 314 — The Black Charismatic1 section
- AFAM 315 — Black Literary Theory1 section
- AFAM 316 — Carceral Connecticut: Middletown Stories of Race and Redevelopment1 section
- AFAM 317 — Black Connecticut Revolutionaries: Making Freedom in Revolutionary-Era New England1 section
- AFAM 320 — Integrative Learning Project 2: Website Incubator1 section
- AFAM 322 — Black Girl Magic?: Survival and Speculative Fiction in the Social World1 section
- AFAM 323 — Staging Blackness: African American Theater1 section
- AFAM 324 — Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery1 section
- AFAM 324Z — Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery1 section
- AFAM 325 — Blackness and Affect1 section
- AFAM 326 — Litanies for Survival, Plots for Revolution1 section
- AFAM 327 — Biopolitics, Blackness and Spirit Baptism: The Birth of American Pentecostalism1 section
- AFAM 328 — The Black Soul: DuBois and the Practice and Grammar of Religion1 section
- AFAM 329 — Race and Reproduction1 section
- AFAM 331 — Queer and Trans Aesthetics1 section
- AFAM 335 — Fugitives and Freedman: The Politics of Slavery in the Civil War Era1 section
- AFAM 336 — Black Texts, Lost and Found1 section
- AFAM 343 — Empires of Captivity: The Resurgence of Atlantic Slavery in the Age of Emancipations1 section
- AFAM 344 — The Haitian Revolution Beyond Borders1 section
- AFAM 345 — Writing Against Racism1 section
- AFAM 346 — America's First Civil Rights Movement: Black Activism in the U.S. from the Founding to Reconstructio1 section
- AFAM 347 — Black Grammars1 section
- AFAM 348 — The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought1 section
- AFAM 350 — The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations1 section
- AFAM 351 — Queer of Color Critique1 section
- AFAM 352 — Black Thought and Critical Theory1 section
- AFAM 353 — Blackness in the Anthropocene1 section
- AFAM 354 — Social Science, Black Life: Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, and Hurston's Empirical Experiments1 section
- AFAM 355 — Slavery and the American Legal System1 section
- AFAM 358 — Fugitive Perspectives on Education and Civil Society1 section
- AFAM 361 — The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination1 section
- AFAM 363 — Visualizing Black Remains1 section
- AFAM 369 — Performance Remains: Slavery in the Black Dramatic Imagination1 section
- AFAM 370 — Afro-pessimism, Gender, and Performance1 section
- AFAM 371 — Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora1 section
- AFAM 372 — Negativity in Black Critical Thought1 section
- AFAM 375 — Black Global Cities1 section
- AFAM 379 — The Fire Next Time: The Modern Black Freedom Struggle1 section
- AFAM 385 — Race, Capital, and Sexual Consent1 section
- AFAM 386 — Theory of Jazz Improvisation1 section
- AFAM 387 — Black Religions in the Americas1 section
- AFAM 390 — Jazz Improvisation Performance1 section
- AFAM 391 — Unsovereign Elements, Caribbean Poetics1 section
- AFAM 392 — Black Grief Geographies1 section
- AFAM 393 — The Library: Its Past, Present, and Future1 section
- AFAM 394 — Afrofuturist Cinema1 section
- AFAM 395 — Black American Cinema1 section
- AFAM 396 — Jazz Orchestra I1 section
- AFAM 397 — Jazz Orchestra II1 section
- AFAM 401 — Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 402 — Individual Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 403 — Department/Program Project or Essay1 section
- AFAM 404 — Department/Program Project or Essay1 section
- AFAM 407 — Senior Tutorial1 section
- AFAM 408 — Senior Tutorial1 section
- AFAM 409 — Senior Thesis Tutorial1 section
- AFAM 410 — Senior Thesis Tutorial1 section
- AFAM 411 — Group Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 412 — Group Tutorial, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 419 — Student Forum1 section
- AFAM 420 — Student Forum1 section
- AFAM 420A — Student Forum1 section
- AFAM 420B — Student Forum1 section
- AFAM 450 — Steelband1 section
- AFAM 469 — Education in the Field, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 470 — Independent Study, Undergraduate1 section
- AFAM 491 — Teaching Apprentice Tutorial1 section
- AFAM 492 — Teaching Apprentice Tutorial1 section
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