AFC 211 - Black Caribbean World [GEGA]

This course meets the Perspectives on a Diverse World - Global Awareness  requirement of the General Education Program by providing an overview of the Caribbean region within a global context focusing on its history, contemporary reality, and cultural production. Through lectures, readings, writings, and discussions, students will gain insight into the Caribbean regions’ complex history, appreciate its cultural production and begin to recognize the role that the Caribbean plays in larger global systems.

Students will come away from the course more aware of the important role that the Caribbean region has played in the world historically. Topics to be addressed are: the history of the indigenous populations as well as the forced importation of African peoples and their experience. Students will also explore contemporary issues of neoliberalism and ecological pressures in relation to inhabitants’ spiritual practices as well as their musical, literary, and visual production.

The course is not meant to cover every Caribbean island in one semester, which means that the course can be kept fresh and dynamic in its ability to include different countries each semester depending on what new publications come out about the region, what artists emerge, what socio-political and economic issues the professor wants to focus on, different forms of art are to be emphasized, etc.

 
Keywords: Africology , African American Studies , culture , Global Awareness (GEGA)   

Updates: Change to title 4/2019, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 4/2019; Approved for GEGA 1/2018, effective Fall 2018; New Course 10/2016, effective Fall 2017

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