Global Harlem

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The course examines Harlem as a nexus of the encounters and exchanges between African Americans, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. The various iterations of internationalism of Harlem are critically examined through four thematic categories: -The Harlem Renaissance movement and the negritude literary movement -Solidarity movements: civil rights movement and liberation struggles -The making and presence of African immigrant enclaves in Harlem -Gentrification of the neighborhood Drawing on diaspora studies to reflect on the global (re)configurations of Harlem, the course uses different materials, including literary texts, films about and/or set in Harlem, and filmic adaptation of canonical texts.