ANTH 6153 - Black Atlantic: Anthropology of the African Diaspora

This course is similar to ANTH 3153 but requires additional graduate level work. Anthropological perspective on people of African descent in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, and South Africa. Begin by looking at the three sides of Atlantic slavery: Western Europe, West and Southern Africa, and slave societies of the New World and South Africa. Examine "maroon" societies founded by fugitive slaves, the threat of slave revolution in the age of American revolutions, and politics of racial categorization and stratification in the aftermath of slavery. Finally, we take a comparative approach to language, the family, sexuality, conflict and class, religion, arts and ideologies among these cultures.