HIS 467 - Family and Families in African History

Studies how Africans have defined and achieved family and family connections along with ways that states have attempted to use family–as metaphor, ideal, and unit of political and social organization-to organize African life from the 17^th century to the present. 

Satisfies a major requirement in History.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies a Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies a major and a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.