Fordham AAAS

New course offering from our AAAS Affiliate faculty member, Dr. Clara Rodriguez
SOCI 3670 L01 - Hispanic Women

This course integrates readings from various disciplines— social sciences, biographical and fictional literature. It focuses on the experiences of [various] Latinas in their home countries and in the US. Themes to be given emphasis in the course are:

Historical acts of domination and [acts of] resistance

Difference between media images, identities, and realities among Latinas

Views on assimilation, hybridity, intersectionality, and the meanings of memory as reflected in well-known literary works

Course Attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AMST, ASSC, ASHS, LAHA, LALS, LASS, PLUR, URST, WGSS.

Class meets: 11:30am - 12:45pm M/W

Check out this new Fall 2022 course offering from AAAS Faculty member Dr. Mark Naison

AFAM 4000: Affirmative Action & the American Dream
Rose Hill: Tues & Fris 8:30am-9:45am

Check out this new EP3 Fall 2022 course offering from our AAAS Facutly member, Dr. Tyesha Maddox

AFAM 3630: Harlem Century
RH: Tues & Fris 11:30am-12:45pm
LC: Tuesdays 6-8:45pm

Harlem Century examines the history, people, and culture of Harlem from 1900 to the present. Over the course of the semester, we will take a walking tour of Harlem—visiting Harlem cultural institutions, such as the Apollo Theater, Sylvia’s, and the Schomburg Center. We will discuss the Harlem Renaissance and cultural contributions of Harlem to the world as well as look at the contemporary issues of gentrification, race, and identity in Harlem.

Check out some Fall offerings from our AAAS Affiliate Faculty, Dr. Sasha Panorama.

ENGL 4008: Black Letters.
There will be two sections for Fall 2022.
ENGL 4008.R01- Mons & Thurs 10:00am - 11:15am
ENGL 4008.R02 Mons & Thurs 11:30am - 12:45pm.

Riffing on the word “letters” in the title, this course will consider the letters that Black writers exchanged with each other and how these exchanges helped to found what we understand as African American and Caribbean literature. What kinds of writerly relationships grew out of correspondence between authors? How did some writers transform the letter form into other kinds of literary works? How did authors use letters to navigate the realms of the personal, artistic, and political? These are some questions we will consider together in works by Ralph Ellison, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison among others.

NEW 2022 Summer Session 1 course:

AFAM 3150 Caribbean People & Culture
This course is a general introduction to the people, culture, and history of the Caribbean region. Together we will examine the historical, cultural, and contemporary characteristics of various ethnic groups in the Caribbean, paying special attention to Afro West Indians.

This class will be taught entirely online with a combination of synchronous (meeting together) and asynchronous (work on your own time) modules. For the synchronous component, we will meet together on Zoom Mondays and Wednesday at 10:00 -11:15am. Asynchronously, you will be responsible for watching recorded lectures, film, and group work which will be posted on Blackboard.

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African American women have always been key organizers in the struggle for freedom and justice. The women in the Women’s Gallery in our : Protest. Defiance. Resilience. exhibition represent both well-known activists as well as those who quietly pushed for equity in our complex world.

In this photograph, photographer Devin Allen documents an activist on the ground demanding to be heard, as she reaches for a microphone. The image captures the emotional intensity that Allen brings to his photography. Like well-crafted Greek Tragedies with the epic scale of classic films, Allen’s protagonists are subtle but monumental in their emotions and humanity. What emotions does this photo evoke for you?

See more work in the Defiance, Women’s, and Violence Galleries in the Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. exhibition: nmaahc.si.edu/reckoning

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Norma Jean Darden enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York where she graduated with her B.A. degree in liberal arts in 1961. Coupling the Lawrence motto of wisdom and understanding with classic elegance, Darden entered the world of modeling while still a student.

By 1973, she had joined a select group of 11 models chosen for the historic Models of Versailles show in Paris. The show featured a collective of African American models bringing diversity to European fashion houses and runways.

Having earned modeling representation with the exclusive Wilhelmina Agency, couture model Norma Jean Darden worked the runway for fashion icons like Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren. Darden also graced the covers of fashion magazines such as Bazaar, Glamour, Mademoiselle and Vogue during her modeling career.

After a medical condition forced her to leave the runway, Darden and her sister Carole launched a catering company and opened a Harlem-based restaurant, Spoonbread, Inc. On the heels of its success, the sisters co-wrote a cookbook drawing upon their family’s Southern recipes, Spoonbread & Strawberry Wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of a Family.