Spring 2010
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Professor Cati Coe
405-407 Cooper Street, Room 214
phone: (856) 225-6455
email: ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
This course explores the diversity of African childhoods, in different communities and contexts. The course will explore a number of different themes: how child development and expectations for children vary in African communities, how children experience Western schooling and socialization by their communities, and how children contribute to cultural continuity at times but also ruptures such as in war, popular culture, urban migration, and challenges to authority. We will also examine the roles of children at a variety of different ages—from babyhood to youth.
List of Resources
Powerpoints
- Introduction to African Geography
- Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Independence & Beyond
- African Institutions
- Culture and Socialization
- Background to Kenya and “Tribe” in Africa
- Background to Children of their Fathers and Socialization
- Background to First Find Your Child A Good Mother
- Background to The Afterlife is Where We Come From
- Child Circulation
- Nervous Conditions
- Lessons from Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Dance Civet Cat
- Street Children in Kenya
- Child Soldiers