AP/HUMA 1300 9.00

Cultures of Resistance in the Americas: The African American Experience

This General Education course addresses the ways in which diasporic Black peoples have responded to and resisted their enslaved and subordinated status in the Americas. It focuses specifically on the cultural experiences of Black diasporic peoples in the Caribbean, the United States and Canada, and critically interrogates how Black cultures are produced, performed, contested and re-imagined. Examining cross-cultural perspectives of the historical, philosophical, cultural and aesthetic developments of Black people in diaspora, the course seeks to better understand the social and political crises of the world we live in and articulate alternative approaches to conceiving the humanity of people of African descent.