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The podcast phenomenon has shone a light on the outskirts of the city where residents, police and amateur sleuths live with the fallout from a 1999 killing.

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The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is now accepting applications for Summer 2015 on a rolling basis. Each summer, we offer advanced graduate...

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The 2015 meeting theme “Urban Places, Digital Spaces” will investigate issues of place and space as well as the role of media and digital culture in an urban context. Papers may explore the impact...

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TuTh 1:00-2:15 • Dr. Theodore S. Gonzalves • theo@umbc.edu ]]>

This interdisciplinary course offers a survey of Filipino American experiences, including, but not limited to analyses of labor migration from the Philippines to various points of settlement in...

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TuTh 2:30-3:45 • Dr. Michelle Stefano • ms@umbc.edu ]]>

Students will engage with the key issues that pertain to Indigenous heritage, its making, uses, and safeguarding at international, national, and local levels. Indigenous heritage can be understood...

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Wednesdays 4:30-7PM • Dr. Kimberly Moffitt • kmoffitt@umbc.edu ]]>

This course will focus on constructions of Black hair and the Black body in media of the 20th and 21st century. The seminar combines primary readings, personal anecdotes, and applied research...

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What is American Roots Music? To some, the term conjures up well-known musical categories of American vernacular music: gospel, soul, hip-hop, funk, country, rockabilly, bluegrass, jazz, and...

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AMST 630 Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture in the 21st Century United States
W 7:10-9:40PM James Counts Early

This course, constructed around proactive student-participation, examines the historical backdrop and contemporary development of cultural policy in the United States, especially in relation to the practical problem of achieving cultural equity within the public and private institutions of a continuously-evolving multi-cultural political democracy and intersections with growing transnational cultural identities. Special attention is paid to the cultural democracy citizen-protagonists’ dynamics and policy projects of certain periods and to interactions between the official cultural institutions and various racial and ethnic groups, of cultural areas and regions and of socio-economic classes---including gender identity  and sexual identity policies. Reading, lecture-discussion and illustrative cultural materials embrace intellectual and artistic strategies reflected in the graphic and plastic arts, dance, music, literature and various segments of popular culture. Analytical perspectives draw upon the disciplines of history, cultural heritage policy, anthropology, folklore, and political science/Participatory Democracy. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

About the instructor:

James Counts Early has served in various positions at the Smithsonian since first coming on board in 1972 as a researcher in Brazil and the Caribbean for the African Diaspora Folklife Festival program. He has served as assistant provost for educational and cultural programs, assistant secretary for education and public service, and interim director of the Anacostia Community Museum. A long-time advocate for cultural diversity and equity issues in cultural and educational institutions, he focuses his research on participatory museology, cultural democracy statecraft policy, capitalist and socialist discourses in cultural policy, and Afro-Latin politics, history, and cultural democracy. He has curated several Folklife Festival programs, including South Africa: Crafting the Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation (1999) and Sacred Sounds: Belief and Society (1997). James holds a B.A. in Spanish from Morehouse College and completed graduate work (A.B.D.) in Latin American and Caribbean history, with a minor in African and African American history, at Howard University.

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JDST 390: Special Topics - Jewish Humor in America

This course examines the development and influence of Jewish humor through American films, television, and comedy. From Yiddish humor through the immigrant outsider of vaudeville and early film, the mainstreaming sit-coms into the post-war edgy stand-up comedy and cartoons, up to the present ironic pose of comedy. The Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, Gertrude Berg, Lenny Bruce, Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Paul Mazursky, Lewis Black, Judd Apatow, the Coen Brothers and others will be considered. The course focuses on films, but will include some television, stand-up comedy, graphic and literary humor.

Class: 7418
Section: 01-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Mo 7:10-10:10PM
Room: Sondheim 406
Instructor: Greg Metcalf

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SPRING 2015 JDST 390: Special Topics - Jewish Humor in America This course examines the development and influence of Jewish humor through American films, television, and comedy. From Yiddish...

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