AFRICANA STUDIES 281c - d.African-American Utopias:Colonization,Emigration,and Black Nationalisms

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2007. DAN MOOS. As early as 1773, African Americans petitioned whites in power for their removal from America so that they might start a community or nation of their own. Examines the impulses toward colonization and emigration in African-American history, including movements that looked to Africa as an African-American state. Looks at historical documents, essays, and speeches, but focuses primarily on the speculative possibilities offered by African-American authors such as Oscar Micheaux, Martin R. Delany, Surron Griggs, and Toni Morrison. Explores real and fictional black nations, black towns, and even secret black governments and tries to determine the impulse for this departure, as well as the ideological import of black separation from the American nation. (Same as English 281.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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