PSI 3312 - The Politics of African Diaspora

Credits: 4
This course will entail an examination of the political/historical/social processes of African nationalism and the American civil rights movement as a global phenomenon. Framed by the defining moments of the 20th century (i.e. WWI, WWII, the Viet Nam Conflict, the Cold War), students will examine the ideas of pan- Africanist/Nationalist thinkers such as Aimee Cesaire, Frantz, Fanon, Amilcar Carbral, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Topics to be explored include: the idea of African diaspora; pan-Africanism; collective self-determination; the construction of gender roles and configurations of class within nationalist discourses; and the role of African cultural expression in freedom struggles. We may also examine a few contemporary legacies of the diasporic African nationalist movement.
International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.