ABLD 3BA3

TOPICS IN BLACK, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES

Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · Blk, Afrcn&Afrcn Disasp. Stud. · C01

Readings

Winter 2026 · C01

George Ayittey, Defeating Dictators. Chapter 2: Traditional Societies
Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization.
Binyavanga Wainaina - How to write about Africa https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/
George Dei, Reclaiming Development Through Indigeneity and Indigenous Knowledge
Padraic X. Scanlan, Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain, Chapter 3: Haiti, America and the rise of Antislavery.
Ana Lucia Araujo, Dahomey, Portugal and Bahia: King Adandozan and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Saidiya Hartman, The Belly of the world: A Note on Black Women's Labors.
Kwame Ture & Charles Hamilton. Black Power. Tuskegee of Alabama: Politics of Difference
Dahab, S. (2025). It Begins in Community. Black Epistemologies of Interlocking Solidarities: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/blackstudies/chapter/chapter-3-stories-from-hamilton-by-sabreina-dahab/
Mohamed, W (2019). Deconstructing Homosexuality in Ghana.
Martin, G. (2012). African Political Thought. Chapters 5 & 6. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Combahee Collective

Black Epistemologies of Interlocking Solidarities
Kojo Damptey, Desmond Cole, Sabreina Dahab, Terri Bedminster, Koubra Haggar, Ruth Rodney, Ahona Mehdi, & Cassandra Garcia · August 2024 · Required
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/blackstudies/

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