The African Canadian Experience: Past and Present

Undergraduate

Spanning 400 years of the African presence in Canada, this course explores how African-descended peoples have resisted slavery and racial oppression, and the political, social, economic, gender, class and other factors that have influenced their experience. Through lectures, field trips and hands-on workshops, students learn how African Canadians have contributed to the building of this nation, and the global diaspora. Cross-coded with HIST 1913. Antirequisite(s): Credit can be obtained for only one of IDST 1213 or HIST 1913.