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 or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies a major and a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Satisfies a Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.