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Multicultural Black Diaspora Literature


Course Description

Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature.


Athena Title

BLACK DIASPORA LIT


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall, spring and summer


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

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.


Topical Outline

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.


General Education Core

CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture
CORE IV: Humanities and the Arts

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