Spring 2024 History GR8924 section 001

RESISTANCE & THE BLK ATLANTIC

RESISTANCE & THE BLK ATLA

Call Number 11649
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
317 Hamilton Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Natasha J Lightfoot
Type COLLOQUIA
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course investigates in-depth the significance of resistance among African-descended communities in the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone and Lusophone Atlantic Worlds from approximately 1700-2000. We will examine the genesis, forms, and limits of resistance within the context of key historical transformations such as slavery and abolition, labor and migration, and transatlantic political organizing. The class will explore the racial epistemologies, racialized labor regimes, and gendered discourses that sparked a continuum of cultural and political opposition to oppression among Black Atlantic communities. The course will also reflect on how resistance plays a central role in the formation of individual and collective identities among black historical actors.Resistance will be explored as a critical category of historical analysis, and a central factor in the making of the “Black Atlantic.”

Web Site Vergil
Department History
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 9:06PM Friday, October 4, 2024
Status Full
Subject History
Number GR8924
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Section key 20241HIST8924G001