HIST419W The African Side of the Black Diasporic Atlantic: People, Politics, and Faiths | Landau
Fields: Africa and the African Diaspora; Race and Ethnicity; Empires and Colonialism
The Black Atlantic- the African diaspora, and development of Atlantic- world Black communities- but with the focus on the African side. How did new Atlantic states and networks develop in Africa alongside the traffic in enslaved? How did the slave trade change Africa? Focuses include Asante, Dahomey, Yorubaland, African Islamic jihads, and abolition.
This is a history course about Africa, slavery, and anti-slavery; the imagination of Africa; Garveyism, colonialism, and cultural appropriation and repurposing. It covers the modern period, 1700 to the early 20th century. In a word, it is about western Africa during the slave trade and just after it.
T/TH 2:00 - 3:15 | TLF 2108 | Spring 2023
Material covered in this course includes:
- Post-Colonial Studies
- Religion and Belief
- Communities and Networks
- Cultural Appropriation
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery
- West Africa