ABC (0101) 247 - History of the African Diaspora

Credits: 3.00

Students will study peoples of African descent who reside in locales outside their home region on the continent. These people foster new regional communities while contending with the impact of racism, slavery, migration, colonialism, resistance, gender, religion, and economics in the struggle of developing a global African-descended culture.

Course Learning Goals: By the end of the semester, students will be able to:

Explain the concept of diaspora and how African/Black identities outside of Africa have been shaped and articulated over the past five centuries;
Identify and describe the major topics and events relating to the African diaspora;
Develop a historical perspective on the social and cultural constructions of race, gender, and class in the African diaspora;
Deconstruct the relationships between communities of African-descended people who are geographically separated or culturally distinct;
Utilize primary and secondary sources to construct thoughtful arguments relating to the African diaspora; and
Go beyond discussing what things happened and hypothesize on why things happened.