HIST 3640: Black Intellectual History
Course Description
Full Course Title: Black Intellectual History: From Africa to the Diaspora
This course will bridge thinkers in Africa and the African Diaspora, i.e., North America, the Caribbean, and South America. It examines African and Diasporic intellectual movements from Ancient Egypt and Ethiopia to the present. Authors studied will include C.L.R. James, Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Julius Nyerere, David Walker, Nelson Mandela, W.E.B. DuBois, Franz Fanon, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cornel West. (YR)