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Academic Year 2003/2004
Early African American History, 1619-1865
AFAM 203 FA
This course will examine the history of the Blacks in the New World from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century. Beginning with the expansion of Europeans into then 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 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course adopts a disaporic
perspective
in order to demonstrate the world-systemic nature of the history of Blacks in the Americas, and therefore 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 cultural matrix defining of the Americas.
MAJOR READINGS
In addition to a course packet of readings, required books for the course will include:
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART
Vincent Carrreta, ed., UNCHAINED VOICES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK AUTHORS IN THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD OF THE 18TH
CENTURY
Frederick Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDRICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE
Harriet Jacobs, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
John Hope Franklin, RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
A mid-term exam, a final exam, and two papers.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
You are expected to attend two weekly lectures, to read documents/chapters, and to regularly participate in discussions.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Clinton,Catherine
- Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC002
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 50)
- SR. major: 2 Jr. major: 3
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 20 FR: 20
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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