Topic: 20th Century Black Nationalism

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
2:00pm-4:00pm
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Candler Library 207D
Leroy Davis Jr.. HSCW. 412911 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Crosslisted: HIST488-004.

Catalog Description: Wide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.

Semester Details:  

Content:  This course takes a critical look at 20th Century Black Nationalism, both historically, and more recently in the United States, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.  We interrogate its  meaning in different geographical spaces and how those meanings have remained static or changed over time.

 Possible Texts:  Possible texts include, among others:

 Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica.

The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line.

Kwame Nkrumah: Father of African Nationalism

From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism.

 Required Texts:

 Recommended Texts: Recommended texts could include, among others:

 Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion

Pan-Africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-Century Pan-African Formations

American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era

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