HIST 465 - PAN-AFRICANISMS

Hours: 5
This course examines Pan-African connections since 1800 between persons such as American Booker T. Washington and Jamaican Marcus Garvey who then founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association with chapters in Cincinnati, OH, Cuba, England and South Africa. This course will look at Pan-African political and intellectual movements such as the debate on repatriation to Liberia and Sierra Leone, World Wars and the Pan-African Conference at Versailles, Negritude, the Harlem Renaissance, the appeal of Marxism during the Cold War, independence and separatist movements, and civil rights movements. Students will study leaders of the global movements, their ideas and events showing Atlantic connections between the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, and some Afro-Latin communities.

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HIST 465 - PAN-AFRICANISMS