HIST 164D

Main Course

Topics in African History: Africa and Diaspora in Global and Comparative Perspective

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one prior course in African history at UCLA. Designed for juniors/seniors. Forced migration of Africans through overseas slave trade was formative event of modern world. Exploration of that experience and its lasting consequences by placing it in its global context-African, American, European, Islamic, and Asian. P/NP or letter grading.