Pan-Africanism: Global Story of an American Idea

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Pan-Africanism began as an idea among ex-slaves and antislavery reformers in America, who believed that Africans and people of African descent across the world had common histories, common experiences, and common struggles against various forms of racism and marginalization. Pan-Africanism, which meant different things to different people, would go on to influence numerous intellectuals and social movements, from Negritude poets to African/Caribbean Independence and the American Civil Rights Movement. This course would survey the growth of this idea in a variety of facets, by looking at is influence upon history-writing, philosophy, poetry, political thought and social movements. 001529