3 hours, 3 credits

Interdisciplinary examination of debates in the African diaspora through the lenses of history, literature, politics, and culture. Debates about freedom in the age of decolonization. Topics include: W.E.B. Du Bois? schisms with Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey; Black cultural movements such as Afrocubanismo, Harlem Renaissance and Négritude as expressed by Paulette Nardal, Édouard Glissant, Aimé Césaire; postcolonial African and Pan-African World intellectualism and Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere, and Kwame Nkrumah; gender and Pan-Africanism; the transformation of Black women?s 20th century activism and Eslanda Roberson, Shirley Graham DuBois and Claudia Jones; social media and contemporary constructions of racial identity. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3116.