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Apr 19, 2024
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HIS 135 - Introduction to The African Diasporic Experience (3)The contours of this course are threefold. First, this course provides an introduction to the evolution of Africana Studies. This means that we will examine historical origins leading to the emergence of African American history and by extension, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, or Africana Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry, this will include a critical examination of local student activists’ struggles on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus from the 1960s to the 1980s. Second, this course is a general survey that examines the board arc of a multidisciplinary history regarding the African Diasporic experience beginning with themes that include but are not limited to: Africa and the origins of civilization, images of Africans before the advent of global systems of slavery, i.e. the trans-Atlantic slave system and the Islamic slave trade, the development of African American cultures in the Americas, the Haitian Revolution, the Age of Imperial Colonialism, the Jim Crow Era, and other relevant themes from challenges to racial segregation during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements to institutional racism within the American criminal justice system and the Black Lives Matter movement of the 21st century
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