AAAS 491C: Topics in AAAS

Course Description

Topic: Senior Research Seminar: Africa and the New World Diaspora.
A history research seminar exploring the broad history of Africa and its descendants in the New World. Emphasis will be placed on a series of cross-cultural but interconnected themes including: African civilizations, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and comparative systems of servitude, the Haitian Revolution, the American Civil War, the European conquest of Africa, trans-Atlantic systems of inequality, the World Wars,
the African intellectual renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and Independence Movements in Africa. (OC).