African American Diasporas: Transnationalism and the International Politics of Race

African American Diasporas: Transnationalism and the International Politics of Race is a crosslisted Interdisciplinary Arts/Social Science class taught by Amy Jordan and Robert Coles.

Course Description
In this course, we will trace the development of a "diasporic" sensibility among Black intellectuals as they tell the geopolitical story of the race. We will examine this sensibility in novels, essays, newspaper articles, slave narratives, travel writing and "return narratives." Our discussions will attempt to historicize the creation and recreation of conceptions of diaspora including the most recent conversations about the "new" African immigration and its impact on conceptions of the Black Diaspora. Texts include Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood, W.E.B. Dubois' Darkwater, and Manthia Diawara's In Search of Africa.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing