ANTH 442 - The African Diaspora

Description

Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing and successful completion of Golden Four GE Areas (A1, A2, A3, B4) or Consent of Instructor Description: Examines the dispersal of Africans to other continents over the last two thousand years. Special attention will be paid to the African slave trade, identity formation, and nationalism. The course employs interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, art history, linguistics, and literature.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/14/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
TH  4:30 PM  -  7:20 PM  DEL NORTE 3550 1/17/2015 - 5/15/2015 Sarah Watkins

Status: Open
Class Number: 3658
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/17/2015 - 5/15/2015
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 16
Available Seats: 14
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 0521627249
Title: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author: John Thornton

Status: Required
ISBN: 1558764534
Title: East Africa and the Indian Ocean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Edward Alpers

Status: Required
ISBN: 0446677132
Title: The Salt Roads
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Author: Nalo Hopkinson

Status: Required
ISBN: 1930618468
Title: Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diasp
Publisher:
Author: Kevin Yelvington

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Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • D: Social Perspectives
  • UDIGE: Interdisciplinary

Notes

Cross-listed course