HIST 387: Topics in Global History

HIST 387-004: Gendered Experiences of Pan-Africanism: Travel Encounters during the Cold War
(Fall 2011)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Section Information for Fall 2011

This course explores the writings and activism of people of African descent who looked toward the African continent in general and Ghana in particular for racial solidarity, a connection to a shared cultural past and present, an opportunity to build working-class solidarity, or a political landscape on which to build pan-African political movements. The course will examine the ethnic, national, gender and class dimensions of African American interactions with Africans through the analysis of writings and other sources detailing the interconnections through travel. The course will interrogate the underlying basis of these interactions as a way of understanding the extent to which solidarities were conceived as romantic, essentialist links to a shared past or with a recognition of the economic, political, and social complexities of transnational encounters on a diverse African continent. The course will examine these links between the diaspora and Africa within the context of the Cold War, U.S. civil rights and African anti-colonial movements, and racial and gender ideologies of the time.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3-6

Study of historical topics or periods of special interest in global, Latin American, African, Asian, or Middle Eastern history. Notes: Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Mason Core: Global Understanding
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies, Non-Western Culture
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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