PAN-AFRICANISM & DIASPORIC POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIAL GROUPS & INITIATIVES

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This course will examine Pan-Africanism - both as an ideology that shaped the philosophy, self-image, and consciousness of people of African descent globally, and as a complex political practice that impacted the modern world. Students will engage with the social, political, and individual forces that the shifted how people conceived of the identity "African" over time. This course will provide an overview of the development of Pan-African thought beginning with the European trade of Africans and addressing other significant movements such as African American emigration to Africa in the 19th century, Garveyism in the 1920s, African decolonization during the late 1950s and 1960s, and Black Nationalism in the 1970s and 80s.