African American History, 1444-1877
AFAM 203
Fall 2014
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01
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| Crosslisting:
HIST 241 |
| Course Cluster: African Studies |
This course will examine the history of blacks in the New World from the 15th to the late 19th centuries. Beginning with the expansion of Europeans into the, from their perspective, newly discovered lands in Africa and the Americas, this class explores the Middle Passage, the history of slavery and emancipation in a hemispheric context, as well as the ideology of race during the 18th and 19th centuries in the wake of transformative intellectual movements in the United States and Europe. The course adopts a diasporic conceptual framework to elucidate the world-systemic dimensions of the history of blacks in the Americas. Moreover, 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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| 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: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART
Demetrius Eudell, THE POLITICAL LANGUAGES OF EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN AND THE U.S. SOUTH
Robin Kelley and Earl Lewis, TO MAKE OUR WORLD ANEW: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
Herbert Klein and Ben Vinson III, AFRICAN SLAVERY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Louis Sala-Molins, DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT: SLAVERY AND THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
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Examinations and Assignments:
3 in-class exams and a final essay |
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: .M.W... 08:30AM-09:50AM; Location: PAC002; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 35 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 16 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 10 | FR: 10 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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