Politics 213 - African Diaspora: A Global Perspective

What is the African diaspora? Where is the African diaspora? Who is from the African diaspora? How does the African diaspora move, develop, and change, and how has African diaspora been shaped and reshaped over time? This course is a historical, conceptual, and thematic examination of the African diaspora around the world. It thus focusses on the historical background, definitions, concepts, racial identities, and the globality and diversity of the African diaspora including their common origin, culture, and political consciousness such as Pan-Africanism, the experience of the slave trade, and free migration across the world, colonialism and racism, and continued black marginalization and inequalities based on racial legacies and structures.