Black Studies 291 - African Diaspora Thought

Spring
2019
01
4.00
Olufemi Vaughan
MW 02:00PM-03:20PM
Amherst College
BLST-291-01-1819S
FOHA 109
ovaughan@amherst.edu
BLST-291-01,HIST-291-01

[A/D] This course will critically examine seminal works on African and African diaspora thought since the eighteenth century and will explore the following major issues: the consolidation of Atlantic slavery in the eighteenth century, the anti-slavery struggle in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Black freedom movements in the twentieth century, and the consolidation and fall of colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean in the twentieth century. Discussed in their appropriate historical context, the course will explore anti-slavery, pan-Africanist, Black feminist, and Black nationalist thinkers, notably Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Fowell Buxton, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden, Alexander Crummell, Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, and Angela Davis.

Spring semester. Professor Vaughan.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.