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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ANT 257 - African Roots, American Soils Instructor
Bowles
This course introduces the African Diaspora as a theoretical framework within anthropology for investigation of the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world. This course examines 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.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
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