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O'Neal, Shawn Trenell

Teaching Assistant Professor

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Research

research overview

  • My research overview aims to answer the question; In what approaches do we create interdisciplinary modes and methods of research and pedagogy that operates as anti-racist, and in general, anti-oppressive systems of teaching and epistemological reciprocation as the foundation of institutional transformation?

keywords

  • African American Studies, Black Studies, Africana Studies, Audio Intersectionality, Intersectionality, Black Feminism, Black Womanist, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer of Color Critique, Transgender of Color Studies, Anti-Racism, Black Performance Studies, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Black Avant-Garde, Hip Hop Studies, Fugitive Pedagogy, Experimental DJing, Turntablism

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Teaching

courses taught

  • ETHN 1022 - Introduction to Africana Studies
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2023
    Overview of Africana studies as a field of investigation, its origins and history.
  • ETHN 2432 - African American History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
    Surveys African American history. Studies, interprets and analyzes major problems, issues and trends affecting African Americans from about 1600 to the present. Same as HIST 2437.
  • ETHN 3024 - Introduction to Critical Sports Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2019
    Learn to think in an informed and critical way about sports in society. Examine the socio-cultural significance of sports as it relates to topics such as youth, social class, race/ethnicity, gender, identity, and intercollegiate athletics. Readings, class discussions, videos, and guest speakers will help expand our understanding of this important social phenomenon.
  • ETHN 3212 - Introduction to Hip Hop Studies
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Summer 2022 / Spring 2023
    Examines critical questions posed by hip hop culture. Accentuated in this course are hip hop's contributions to the political-economic, philosophical, and sociological study of race, racism, sexism and sexuality. Examines the ways in which hip hop, as a new social phenomenon, cultural force and aesthetic form, have influenced contemporary American and global culture. Recommended prerequisite: ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001.
  • ETHN 3314 - Violence Against Women and Girls
    Teaching Assistant - Spring 2021
    Focuses on aspects of the victimization of women and girls that are "Gendered" - namely, sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse. Also explores the importance of race, class, and sexuality in gendered violence. Same as SOCY 3314 and WGST 3314.
  • HIST 2437 - African American History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
    Surveys African American history. Studies, interprets and analyzes major problems, issues and trends affecting African Americans from about 1600 to the present. Same as ETHN 2432.
  • SOCY 3314 - Violence Against Women and Girls
    Teaching Assistant - Spring 2021
    Focuses on aspects of the victimization of women and girls that are "Gendered" - namely, sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse. Also explores the importance of race, class, and sexuality in gendered violence. Recommended prerequisite: SOCY 1016 or WGST 1016. Same as ETHN 3314 and WGST 3314.
  • WGST 3314 - Violence Against Women and Girls
    Teaching Assistant - Spring 2021
    Focuses on aspects of the victimization of women and girls that are "Gendered" - namely, sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse. Also explores the importance of race, class and sexuality in gendered violence. Recommended prerequisite: SOCY 1016 or WGST 1016. Same as ETHN 3314 and SOCY 3314.

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