The Yoruba and the Atlantic World

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The Yoruba in the African diaspora is how Africans, separated from their home country and scattered in a new land, managed to retain their traditions and reform their identities. The slave trade led to the spreading of African culture, religion, dance, art and music from one hemisphere to another and contributed to the cultural diversity of the New World. Allows students to trace the experiences of one African cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Utilizes different sources or approaches (e.g., anthropology, archaeology, written document, oral tradition) to provide an understanding of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba in the New World.