The Black World

3 Credits.

This iteration of the Black World Seminar attends to the making and meaning of blackness through the concept of property and its application between the 16th and 21st centuries. We’ll consider the push and pull factors that snatched people out of Africa and drew people of African descent to travel, build lives and determine the meaning and making of land, territory and real estate. We’ll explore, too, the historical forces which created blackness as a marker on the body, as a political and cultural identity, and as a determinant of property’s value.