Black Diasporas (O)

3 ch (3C) (W) · Undergraduate

Explores Africans and their descendants in various geographic spaces, including Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, from the16 th Century to the present. Lectures, readings, discussions, and assignments emphasize several key themes: the indispensability of slavery to the colonial development of the Americas and Europe; the entrenchment of race as a mode of cat egorical belonging and discrimination; the continuity of multivalent struggles for dignity, freedom, and equality; and the role of gender, geography, and imperial warfare in the shaping of the black diasporas.