African American History, 1444-1877
AFAM 203
Fall 2011
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01
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| Crosslisting:
HIST 241 |
This course will examine the history of blacks in the New World from the 15th to the late 19th century. Beginning with the expansion of Europeans into then newly discovered lands (from their perspective) in Africa and the Americas, this class explores the Middle Passage, and the history of slavery and emancipation in a hemispheric context, as well as the ideology of race during the 18th and 19th centuries. The course adopts a disaporic perspective in order to demonstrate the world-systemic dimensions of the history of Blacks in the Americas, and therefore it aims to show that rather than constituting a "minority," Blacks represent one of the founding civilizations (along with Western Europeans and the Indigenous populations) to the "new worlds" that would be instituted in the wake of the Encounter of 1492. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AFAM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM)(AFST-MN)(AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Demetrius L. Eudell, The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South
Nathan Huggins Black Odyssey: The African American Ordeal in Slavery
John Thornton, African and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
Louis Sala-Molins, Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment
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Examinations and Assignments:
2 short essays (5-7 pages), mid-term, final examination |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students are expected to attend two weekly lectures, to read documents/chapters, and to regularly participate in class discussions. |
| Instructor(s): Eudell,Demetrius L. Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC002; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 45 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 11 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 15 | FR: 15 |
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