HIST 242L - Introduction to Africana Studies

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course is an introduction to the history of peoples of African descent across the globe with special emphasis on the Americas. Topics covered will include the Atlantic Slave Trade, emancipation and post-emancipation struggles, pan-Africanism in the 20th century, and themes such as music, religion, gender, and sexuality. Migration, culture, identity, and diasporic connections will form the principal themes that will shape the approach of the course. In addition, this course discusses the diasporic experience outside the Americas, in places such as Europe and Asia. Serves as the gateway course to the minor in Africana Studies