Spring 2025 Religion GU4207 section 001

Religion and the Afro-Native Experience

Religion and Afro-Native

Call Number 00515
Day & Time
Location
W 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Tiffany Hale
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

African Americans and Native Americans have a shared history of racial oppression in America. However, the prevailing lenses through which scholars understand settler colonialism, religion, and black and indigenous histories focus overwhelmingly on the dynamics between Europeans and these respective groups. How might our understanding of these subjects change when viewed from a different point of departure, if we center the history of entanglements between black and native lives? How does religion structure the overlapping experiences of Afro-Native peoples in North America?

From political movements in Minneapolis, Oakland, and New York City to enslavement from the Cotton Belt to the Rio Grande, this class will explore how Africans, Native Americans, and their descendants adapted to shifting contexts of race and religion in America. The course will proceed thematically by examining experiences of war, dislocation, survival, and diaspora.

Web Site Vergil
Department Religion @Barnard
Enrollment 12 students (15 max) as of 5:05PM Sunday, December 8, 2024
Subject Religion
Number GU4207
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251RELI4207W001