ABD 305 PAN - Africanism

Institution:

DePaul University

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Description:

The upper level course will interrogate the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of people in the African diaspora. We will examine the contributions of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals, including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, in the formation of diasporic movements and Pan-African thought. We will ask, to what degree was the ideology of Pan-Africanism and the iconography of Africa employed to mobilize masses of black people around local and domestic issues How important has a consciousness of Africa been to the construction of cultural identities in the diaspora, and how have class, gender, and race shaped or constrained those identities Our goal is to develop furthur insights into the ways in which people of the African diaspora have continually reinvented and imagined the home of their ancestors, in turn reinventing and imaging themselves.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.depaul.edu

Phone Number:

(312) 362-8000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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