Intro Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity: GlobalBlackness:Migration,Diaspora&Citizenship in the Age of Bordering

Global Blackness is a cross-disciplinary transnational multi-lingual survey course that will introduce students to a range of texts, including film, literature and popular culture produced by and about Black people outside of the United States. Students will learn about the legacy of European expansion in Africa and the Americas, the impact of the transatlantic slave trade beyond the United States, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in places like Haiti and Eritrea, as well as engage with a diversity of Black cultural art, identities, politics, social movements, and expressions that come from these knowledges and beyond.