AFC 221 Black Liberation Struggles

This course will explore Africa and its diaspora from the perspective of revolutions, addressing and assessing physical armed struggle as well as spiritual and ideological struggles.

We will be reading a number of texts from different parts of the globe in order to seek out and identify commonalities of purpose and method as well as investigate how black struggles for freedom have been realized both historically and contemporarily.

Students will come away from the course with a sense of some of the challenges to freedom that African and African diasporic people have faced over the centuries and their responses—quite proactive and innovative in many ways—to those challenges.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter (in-person)

Prerequisites -
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Class - Undergraduate Standing

Equivalent Course(s) - AAS 221, AAS 202
Course History -
Course Rotation updated 12/2022; Change to title and description 4/2019, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013

African American Studies , Africology

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