Fall 2025 Anthropology UN3728 section 001

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BLACK LIFE

Call Number 10613
Day & Time
Location
R 12:10pm-2:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Vanessa L Agard-Jones
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This course explores themes that have shaped Anthropology’s (often fraught) engagement with Black life. We will critically examine texts that reveal the ways that the discipline and its practitioners have sought to interface with people and populations of African descent—and have sought to define the constitution of Blackness itself—in the Americas. Plumbing the dynamic relationship between historical and ethnographic inquiry, we will ask pressing questions not only about conditions of Black life (and Black death), but also about the production of knowledge about the people who live under Blackness’ sign. Finally, we will turn our collective attention to key issues in the practice, ethics, and politics of ethnography, while also immersing ourselves in the archives produced through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic practice, including those found in various NYC collections.
Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 0 students (14 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3728
Section 001
Division Interschool
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, General Studies
Note Undergrads only. Previous coursework in Anth or African Ame
Section key 20253ANTH3728V001