Africans in the Americas by Michael L. Conniff

We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples. Smith, Ronald Grimes, Lawrence Sullivan), and will increase their ability to theorize about ritual, festivity, sacred time, ritual space and ethnicityīreaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. Students will become more critical readers of ethnographic and historical sources, as well as theories from the Study of Religion (Jonathan Z. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom the rise of anti-slavery movements and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.īy reading case studies of various religious festivals in locations throughout the Caribbean and South, Central and North America, as well as theoretical literature drawn from social anthropology and religious studies, students will become familiar with significant features of contemporary religious life in the Americas, as well as with scholarly accounts of religious and cultural change. This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. African-American and African Studies ProgramĪAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies (4)

Africans in the Americas by Michael L. Conniff