AFR 193
Black Power Abroad: Decolonization in Africa, the Caribbean and Europe
Last Offered Fall 2011
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
HIST 193
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
Obama’s recent successful bid for the Presidency has reminded Americans of the strong links between African-Americans and Africans and of the international dimensions of the struggle for racial justice. This struggle has its roots in the post-World War II transformation of the world associated with the decolonization struggles led by individuals like C.L.R. James, Aimé Césaire, Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Fanon and Nelson Mandela. This course will examine this movement, focusing on activists in the Caribbean and Africa, the new ideas and cultural movements they inspired (Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and Socialism), their organizational activities in London and Paris, and their success in breaking free of European imperialism only to be confronted with American and Russian Cold War rivalry. By comparing and contrasting different experiences of independence–in the Caribbean, in independent Ghana, and in anti-apartheid South Africa–this course will grapple with the ways in which racism, political power, and cultural difference affected relations between Blacks, mulattoes, whites, and Indians in these countries as they fought for independence. The comparative and transatlantic scope of this course, combined with its focus on race relations, power, and privilege helps it meet the requirements of the Exploring Diversity Initiative.
The Class:
Format: discussion
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1015
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1015
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
evaluation will be based on class participation, oral reports, 1 short paper, and a 10- to 12-page research paper
Prerequisites:
first-year or sophomore standing; juniors or seniors with permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences:
first-year students, and then sophomores who have not previously taken a 100-level seminar
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 193 Division II AFR 193 Division II
HIST 193 Division II AFR 193 Division II
Attributes:
HIST Group B Electives - Asia
HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
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AFR 193 - SEM Black Power Abroad
AFR 193 SEM Black Power AbroadDivision II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity InitiativeNot offered
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