AADS 2600
Blues, Hip Hop & Place: Black Life in the United States and Brazil · 1 instructor on record · 1 section
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Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.
This course uses hip hop to understand how Black people create place across the Americas. Through Big K.R.I.T. (Mississippi) and Baco Exu do Blues (Salvador, Brazil), we will think deeply with blues and hip hop to investigateracial formation,racial capitalism, Black placemaking, and anti-Blackness. Why do both artists claim the blues tradition? What connects the U.S. South to Brazil's Northeast? Pairing close listening with academic texts, students will develop relational analysis skills and learn to hear music as social theory and epistemology. Students will understand how marginalized regions produce Black livingness. No musical training required; lyrics in English translation.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demetrius MurphyAssistant Professor · Sociology Provisional | 1001 record | — | 48th |
There is no ranking to read here: Demetrius Murphy is the only instructor with evaluation records for AADS 2600, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.
Also taught by Demetrius Murphy
1 other class| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| AADS 2605Hip Hop and Black Social Life in Los Angeles | 11 record | 90 |
Other AADS classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| AADS 1110Introduction to African Diaspora Studies | 510 records | 80 |
| AADS 1114When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions | 310 records | 84 |
| AADS 2204Music and Social Justice | 210 records | 90 |
| AADS 3310Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance | 110 records | 86 |
| AADS 6600Senior Seminar: Theorizing the Diaspora | 46 records | 94 |
| AADS 2182Black Popular Culture | 25 records | 90 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 1 recordBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one. 1 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.
Game log
1 section · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demetrius Murphy | Fall 2025 | 01 | 100 | 100 | — |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.