Middlebury

AMST0348A-S16

Black Ethnography

Writing Black Worlds: Race and the Practice of Ethnography
How do we translate the lived experience of “being black in America” into a text? What does it mean, as Catherine Cole has described, to make “ethno” into “graphic”? In this seminar we will investigate the relationships among race, gender, and ethnographic writing. We will engage in ethnographic research techniques including interviews, performance observation, oral history, and participant-observation. Text may include all or portions of W.E.B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro (1899), John L. Jackson, Jr.’s Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (2005), and Nikki Jones’s Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-city Violence (2009). (Any 0100 level course in AMST or GSFS or SOAN)
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22315
Subject Code:
AMST
Course Number:
0348
Section Identifier:
A

Course

AMST 0348

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Spring 2016

AMST0348A-S16 Lecture (Finley)