ANT 257 - African Roots, American Soils

Instructor
Bowles

This course introduces students to the African Diaspora as a theoretical framework within anthropology that investigates the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world. This course investigates African cultural influences that inform a diaspora connected through migrations, both voluntary and involuntary, as well as colonization and the globalization of capitalism. Topics of discussion include the cultural production of blackness, roots tourism, resistance to oppression, revolutions, rebellions and maroon communities.

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies Social Science distribution requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Not offered 2014-2015; offered in alternating years.)