Black Atlantic

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will explore key aspects in the history of the Black Atlantic world and its Diaspora, from about 1450 to the 1960s or through de-colonialization. We will focus on the development and changing relationships between select societies in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Central themes will include the slavery and the philosophical origins of antislavery ideology. The emergence and evolution of colonialism, racism, industrialism, capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism and post-colonialism will be explored. We will survey competing political ideologies of racism and white supremacy, nationalism, Marxism (socialism), Negritude, Pan-Africanism and Religion. We will also look at the separate but linked notion of the African diaspora and look at its cultural legacies.