AFAM203 - Early African American History, 1619-1865

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Academic Year 2005/2006

Early African American History, 1619-1865
AFAM 203 FA

Crosslistings:
HIST 241
AMST 237

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

Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART
Ottobah Cugano, THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS ON THE EVIL OF SLAVERY
John Hope Franklin, RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Nathan Huggins, BLACK ODYSSEY: THE AFRO-AMERICAN ORDEAL IN SLAVERY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

A mid-term exam, a final exam, and two papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Students 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 AFAM Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Eudell,Demetrius L.

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:

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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006