Black Power

How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions

Unit 1

711: An Army Crosses From Africa Into Europe

Unit 1

The Kouroukan Fouga: Africa's Constitutional Charter

Unit 1

Women, Power & Leadership

Unit 1

The Code Noir: France's Distinct Legal Approach to Slavery

Unit 2

Du Bois and Garvey: Two Versions of 'Africa for Africans'

Unit 2

The Experimental Body: Medical Exploitation Under Slavery

Unit 2

Gender & Resistance: Women Who Refused

Unit 2

Brazil & the Largest African Diaspora in the Americas

Unit 2

Fighting for a Country That Denied Freedom: African Americans and the Revolutionary War

Unit 2

Adwa: The Battle That Stopped a Colonization in Progress

Unit 4

The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)

Unit 4

The Debate That Shaped a Century: Douglass, Washington, Du Bois & the Question of Black Freedom

Unit 4

The Tirailleurs Senegalais: Africa's Soldiers in France's War

Unit 4

The Affranchis: How Color Divided the Revolution From Within

Unit 4

Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse

Unit 4

Antonio Maceo: 'The Bronze Titan' of Cuban Independence

Unit 4

Haiti's Hidden Hand and the Soldiers Bolivar's Story Forgets

Unit 4

The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)

Unit 4

Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II

Unit 4.5

Black Women's Leadership & the Civil Rights Movement

Unit 4.5

The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline

Unit 4.5

Marcus Garvey, the UNIA & the Black Star Line

Unit 4.5

Ida B. Wells: The Science of Lynching & the Architecture of Anti-Black Terror

Unit 4.5

Black Feminist Political Thought: Wells, Hamer, and Baker as Theorists

Unit 4.5

HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University

Unit 4.5

The Disfranchisement Machine: How Black Voting Was Eliminated and Why It Matters

Unit 4.5

King's Ghana Trip & Malcolm's OAAU Charter

Unit 5

Pan-Africanism: The Full Ideological Arc — Blyden to the OAU

Unit 5

Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James

Unit 5

Blanqueamiento: Engineering a Whiter Nation

Unit 5

Hans Massaquoi: A Child Who Wanted to Join the Hitler Youth

Unit 5

The World Cup as Diaspora Mirror: Colonialism, Identity, and the Beautiful Game

Unit 5.5

NIL, Ownership, and the Economics of Black Athletic Labor

Unit 5.5

The Global Court: African and Caribbean Athletes and the Diaspora

Unit 5.5

The Negro Leagues: Black Institution-Building Under Exclusion

Unit 5.5

The Black Body as Contested Territory: An Introduction

Unit 5.5

The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and the Unfinished Franchise

Unit 6

African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation

Unit 6

The Tooth and the Statue: Belgium's Slow Reckoning

Unit 6

Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam: Black Nationalism and Self-Defense

Unit 6

Vietnam: Black Service, Black Resistance

Unit 6

The New Jim Crow: The War on Drugs and the Rise of Mass Incarceration

Unit 6

Tuskegee: The Study, the Betrayal, and the Wound That Didn't Heal

Unit 6

The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity

Unit 6

A Hemisphere-Wide Timeline: Same Institution, Wildly Different Endings

Unit 6

The Wretched of the Earth: Violence, Sartre's Preface, and the Pitfalls Ahead

Unit 6

From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism

Unit 6

The Harlem Renaissance: Remaking Black Identity Through Art

Unit 6.5

The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built

Unit 6.5

South Africa: Apartheid as Formal Law, and the Decades-Long Fight to End It

Unit 7

The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora

Unit 7

Reform or Abolition: The Carceral State and the Movement for Black Lives

Unit 7

Rastafari's Answer to the Color Ladder

Unit 7

Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor

Unit 7

Rhodesia: A White Minority Declares 'Independence,' and a War Decides What That Word Actually Means

Unit 7

Lusotropicalism and Its Limits: Race in Portugal Today

Unit 7

Economic Self-Determination: From Mutual Aid to Black Wall Street

Unit 7

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

Unit 7

Culture Has a Material Base: Cabral's Materialist Theory

Unit 7

Sacred Disguise: Santeria, Candomble, and Vodou

Unit 7

Obeah: Criminalized for Two Centuries, Practiced Anyway

Unit 7

Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion

Unit 7.5

The Congo Crisis: A Prime Minister Dead Within Seven Months of Independence

Unit 8

C.L.R. James: A Historian Who Turned Toussaint Louverture Into a Marxist Argument

Unit 8

Pelé and the 'Whitening' of Brazilian Football

Unit 8

The Racial Wealth Gap Today: What the Numbers Mean

Unit 8

Healing Communities: African Americans in Medicine and Public Health

Unit 9

A Shipwreck, Not a Slave Ship: Origins on Yurumein

Unit 9

From the Bronx to the World: Hip-Hop and Global Black Culture

Unit 10

Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition

Unit 10

Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination

Unit 10

Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America

Unit 10

The Black Church: Faith, Community and Freedom

Unit 10

Appiah's Challenge: What If Pan-Africanism's Foundation Doesn't Hold?

Unit 10

Imagining Freedom: African Futurism and Afrofuturism

Unit 10

Somalia: A State That Stopped Existing

Unit 11

Political Representation Without Guaranteed Power: Epsy Campbell Barr and Francia Marquez

Unit 14

The Organizations Still Doing the Work

Unit 14