CORE 330 - From Margin to Center to World:The Intellectual and Social Formation of Africans in the Americas

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Colgate University

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P. Richards, M. Stephens This seminar explores the construction of national and transnational identities in communities of African descent throughout the Americas, expanding the meaning of "African American" to include the black Americas more broadly. Together these diasporic communities share the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade (between Africa, the Americas, and Europe), but also, in the present, a relationship based on the continuous diversification of the African American community by West Indian and African immigrants and cultural influences. To explore an interdisciplinary range of questions in sociology, history, and the study of literature, the course will include several different bodies of literature, including political pamphlets, sermons, newspapers, novels, slave and travel narratives, biographies, and histories. Primary readings include works by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Imamu Baraka, pbell hooks, Cornell West, and Edwidge Danticat.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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