Below is a selection of courses that Rashida K. Braggs has created at Williams College with topics emphasizing multiple performance genres from literature and music to comics and movement/dance.
Africana Studies 11, “Performing Blackness,” Winter Study Course
Africana Studies 25, “Paris Noir: Performances in the City of Light,” Travel Winter Study Course
Political Science 25 “Eye Care and Culture on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua,” Winter Study Course
Africana Studies 128, “James Baldwin’s Song” (Cross-listed with Music and Comparative Literature)
— In 2023, this course spawned a student-professor collaboration that included a journal article, an original song by students William Murray and Elijah Parks, and a new song by Professor Rashida K. Braggs.
Africana Studies 156, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Jazz” (Cross-listed with American Studies, Comparative Literature and English)
Africana Studies 200, “Introduction to Africana Studies”
Africana Studies 216, “Moving While Black” (Cross-listed with Dance, Comparative Literature and American Studies)
Africana Studies 217, “Race(ing) Sports: Issues, Themes and Representations of Black Athletes” (Cross-listed with Sociology, English and American Studies)
Africana Studies 314, “Groovin’ the Written Word: The Role of Music in African American Literature” (Cross-listed with American Studies, Comparative Literature and English)
Africana Studies 317, “Black Migrations: African American Performance at Home and Abroad” (Cross-listed with American Studies, Comparative Literature, Dance, English and Theatre)
Africana Studies 323, “Comic Lives: Graphic Novels & Dangerous Histories of the African Diaspora” (Cross-listed with English, Art History, American Studies and Comparative Literature)
Africana Studies 440, “Performing Blackness,” Senior Capstone Course
