ASRC 6200 - [Global Africa-Black Experience]

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2012-2013. Co-meets with ASRC 3200.

A. Mazrui.

This course will combine the study of Africa with the study of two Diasporas. The Diaspora of Enslavement concerns enslaved Africans and descendents of slaves in both the Western and Eastern Diaspora. The Diaspora of Colonization concerns demographic dispersal as a result of colonialism. African Americans are part of the Diaspora of Enslavement. Algerian immigrants into France are part of the Diaspora of Colonization. Jamaicans and Trinidadians in Briton are a double Diaspora—products of both enslavement and colonialism. This course will also examine the debate about whether the African peoples are owed reparations by either the West of the Arabs or both. This course will address the following areas of comparative Black experience: the politics of race, gender, religion, liberation, language, civil rights, and postcoloniality.