This course surveys major locations, musical influences, and aesthetic elements of New Orleans hip hop culture, with special emphasis on Bounce and the defining features of local spoken word.
Students worked with Hip Hop 4 Hope to develop a benefit concert and fund-raiser for local not-for-profits. They were guided through the organization, implementation, and evaluation of this public event that brought together key personalities and figures within New Orleans hip hop to highlight both the educational and entertainment value of the culture.
This course is an exploration of some of the central themes of African Diaspora Studies through the study of selected issues arising out of the African Diasporic moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
This course will provide a critical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African cinema from its inception in the 1960s to the present.
Students were involved in dynamic engagements of African cultures, social experiences, and world views through screening of African films in select local high schools.
ADST 4830
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop & HIV/AIDS
Nghana Lewis
This course deepens students’ understanding of core tensions, issues, and themes in African & African Diaspora Studies and provides a framework for students to apply this understanding to the completion of a community-based service-learning project.
Students educated young women at the MLK Charter School for Science & Technology on HIV/AIDS.
ADST 4840
Performance & African & African Diaspora Studies
Nghana Lewis
This course is an exploration of some of the central themes of African Diaspora Studies through the study of selected issues arising out of the African Diasporic moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
Students collaborated with adolescents at the MLK Charter School for Science & Technology to organize and host an Open Mic Night at Tulane.
ADST 6050
From Sojourner to Sister Souljah: Social Movement and Black Feminist Thought in America
Nghana Lewis
This course surveys major thought and development in black feminism to understand its application to political, social, and economic issues relevant to black women’s lives.
Students organized 10 Saturday morning workshops which pertained to black feminism in America.
ADST 6090
Criminal Justice and ADST
Nghana Lewis
This course surveys the history of the U.S. criminal justice system, with emphasis on the characteristics, problems, and dynamics of race, gender, age, and class in theoretical approaches to criminal procedure and criminal justice reform. Special consideration will be given to landmark criminal justice cases arising out of the state of Louisiana, including Duncan v. Louisiana (1968), Kyles v. Whitley (1995), and Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008).
Students worked with Orleans Public Defenders Office to gain insight into pre-trial proceedings by aiding defense counsel in completing interviews with clients and contacting clients’ family members to discuss bond.
American Studies
AMST 5010
Interview as Cultural Conversation
Nicholas Spitzer
Students will gain a historical and ethnographic understanding of the emergence, impact, and meaning of the interview as a performance event and dialogic form of communication based in conversation, learn to conduct pre-interview research, and conduct a cultural and historically useful interview as well as to record, transcribe, and cite it. Students will be able to write and speak critically about the role and value of intercultural communication in building public discourse.
Students worked with Sweet Home New Orleans, Hogan Jazz Archive, and American Routes.
