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Origins of the African Diaspora

African American Studies begins with Africa's diverse societies and their connections to the wider world. Topics: What Is African American Studies?, African Geography, Population Growth, and Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Africa's Ancient Societies, The Sudanic Empires and West African Learning Traditions, Indigenous Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism, Culture and Trade in Southern and East Africa, Kongo, Kinship, and Political Leadership, Global Africans.

Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance

This unit follows Africans and their descendants through early American colonization, the Atlantic slave trade, and the growth of racial slavery. Topics: African Explorers and the Geography of the Slave Trade, Capture, the Middle Passage, and Resistance at Sea, Slave Auctions, Labor, and the American Economy, Slave Law, Racial Classification, and Inherited Status, Creating African American Culture and Naming Black Identity, Stono, Fort Mose, and the Haitian Revolution, Everyday Resistance, Revolts, and Free Black Organizing, Maroon Societies, Brazil, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples, Emigration, Radical Resistance, and the Underground Railroad, Art, Photography, and Women's Narratives of Resistance, The Civil War, Emancipation, and Freedom Days.

The Practice of Freedom

African Americans claimed citizenship, rebuilt families, and created institutions after emancipation while confronting restrictions on land, labor, voting, and public life. Topics: Reconstruction Citizenship and Family Life, Black Codes, Land, and Labor, The Defeat of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, White Supremacist Violence and the Red Summer, The Color Line and Strategies for Black Advancement, Black Institutions, Higher Education, and Community Life, The New Negro Movement, Photography, and Poetry, Black Performance and the Study of Black History, Migration and Pan-African Organizing.

Movements and Debates

Black freedom movements linked struggles against segregation in the United States with anticolonial movements abroad. Topics: Négritude, Negrismo, and Anticolonial Solidarity, World War II, School Desegregation, and Housing Discrimination, Civil Rights Organizations and Grassroots Leadership, The Arts, Music, and Politics of Freedom, Black Power, the Black Arts Movement, and the Black Panthers, Black Beauty, Afrocentricity, and Black Feminist Thought, Economic Change, Political Representation, and Community Diversity, African American Music and Black Life on Stage and Screen, African Americans and Sports, Science, Medicine, Black Studies, and Afrofuturism.

Historical and Source Analysis Skills

African American Studies uses historical reasoning, source analysis, and evidence-based arguments to investigate Black experiences in Africa and the diaspora. Topics: Applying Disciplinary Knowledge, Source Analysis, Argumentation.