An understanding and appreciation of the literature and culture
of African-American, African-Caribbean and African people with
their common bonds and differences due to the three black
communities' different historical encounter with the West. Course
grade will be determined by objective tests on assigned texts and
class work, one term paper and the final examination.

Oral literature in Africa and in the African-American and African-
Caribbean communities; early encounter of the African people with
the West in Africa and in the New World; liberation from slavery,
colonialism and racism; the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude and
black nationalism and cultural identity; black people's concerns 
in today's global community; the search for black literary
aesthetics.

Students are required to abide by the University of Georgia academic honesty policy.