Major

This course will introduce students to the value and real-world applicability of Africana Studies by examining global Black history and contemporary Black people’s experiences. It will examine the fundamental role of race in structuring the modern world by foregrounding African Diasporic people’s history, politics, and cultural productions with a particular emphasis on the Americas and the Caribbean. 

This course examines racism through socio-cultural perspectives on colonization, decolonization, global capitalism, and white supremacy. Drawing on anthropological approaches to systemic and institutional racism, this course helps students to understand how indigenous and marginalized people in various regions of the world experience and resist racialized oppression. 

This course will examine the various ways in which people of the African diaspora have shaped and been shaped by capitalist institutions using state and global institutions. Questions that will animate this course include, how have the experiences of people of African descent from around the world shaped and interacted with capitalism in its various stages from mercantilism through to globalization?