This course is a survey of African history from approximately 1800 to 1975. We will explore and analyze the final decades of the Atlantic slave trade, 欧洲殖民主义在非洲的兴起, 反抗殖民统治的, 民族主义, 和非殖民化. 学生 will analyze how Africans p艺术icipated in discussions about race, 性别, 性, 政治, 然后在本地更改, 区域, 以及全球层面. 通过研究最近的学术著作, 除了历史文献, 音乐, 艺术, 和文学, this course will introduce students to the rich and diverse field of African history.

'This course focuses on the writing of history in the genre of graphic non-fiction. While graphic histories differ significantly from traditional secondary sources, we must think of these texts as forms of history writing. 学生将阅读和分析第一手资料, 图形非虚构作品, 还有历史学家写的学术文章. 在整个街区的过程中, we will analyze and reflect on how historians think about audience, 现在的信息, 与信息源接触, and get people to think about the past in a range of ways.'

考察这些社会力量, 历史和当代, that have brought about racial and ethnic 'diversity' and 'difference' in the U.S. Attention to the histories and experiences of Native Peoples, 非裔美国人, 拉丁裔和亚裔美国人. 采用比较方法, it puts into focus the shared histories of racialization among these groups without losing sight of asymmetrical relations of power informing these histories. The course sheds light on the ways these groups position themselves and are positioned as racial subjects in distinct and historically specific ways but also in relational and mutually constitutive ways. (May meet either the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality requirement.)(满足Equity and Power: EPUS要求.1单元- Atuire, Ratchford.

This course takes the moment of decolonization in India to explore the history of colonialism and its legacies as well as historiographical issues such as the relationship between memory and history and the representation of violence in history. We begin the course by examining the political events, 社会发展, 以及导致分裂的经济危机, specifically on how Muslims in India came to be seen as a discrete minority community during British colonialism and how different leaders envisioned their status during the final years of British rule. We then turn to issues in the writing of P艺术ition history and will read three monographs that focus on different aspects of the history of P艺术ition. This course will also explore the limitations of traditional historiographical approaches to an event like P艺术ition and examines representations of P艺术ition in literature and film.