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Colonial America
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Gaspar Yanga and San Lorenzo de los Negros: The First Free Town in the Americas
Unit 1
Juan Garrido: The Black Conquistador
Unit 1
Before Jamestown: Africans in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Unit 1
The Code Noir: France's Distinct Legal Approach to Slavery
Unit 2
The Dutch Difference: Curacao's Trade and Suriname's Maroons
Unit 2
Edward Blyden and the 'African Personality'
Unit 2
Du Bois and Garvey: Two Versions of 'Africa for Africans'
Unit 2
Castas vs. the One-Drop Rule: Two Systems, Two Logics
Unit 2
The Sistema de Castas: Classifying Race in Spanish America
Unit 2
Gender & Resistance: Women Who Refused
Unit 2
Maroon Sovereignty: Free Communities in the Americas
Unit 2
Slavery, Indigenous Territory & the Five Civilized Tribes
Unit 2
Where the Trade Actually Went
Unit 2
Fighting for a Country That Denied Freedom: African Americans and the Revolutionary War
Unit 2
Leon Damas: The Founder Who Published First and Is Remembered Least
Unit 3
Palenque de San Basilio: A Free Town That Never Disappeared
Unit 3
The Engineered Divide: Colorism & the Plantation Hierarchy
Unit 3
The Logic of the 1808 Act — Who Really Wanted It Gone? (1800–1807)
Unit 3.5
Adwa: The Battle That Stopped a Colonization in Progress
Unit 4
The Tirailleurs Senegalais: Africa's Soldiers in France's War
Unit 4
Josephine Baker and Montmartre's Black Expatriate Scene
Unit 4
Jose Maria Morelos: Mexico's Contested 'Pardo' Hero
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
Marcus Garvey, the UNIA & the Black Star Line
Unit 4.5
HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University
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
The 'Black Shame': A Propaganda Campaign Built to Humiliate
Unit 5
Hans Massaquoi: A Child Who Wanted to Join the Hitler Youth
Unit 5
Ghana: The Model Nkrumah Built and Then Offered to Everyone Else
Unit 5
African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation
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
Divide and Rule: How Ethnicity Became Party Politics
Unit 6
Beyond the Salon: Présence Africaine and the 1956 Congress
Unit 6.5
Paris as Refuge: African American Expatriates from the Hellfighters to Baldwin
Unit 6.5
The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built
Unit 6.5
Colonialism as 'The Negation of the Historical Process'
Unit 7
The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora
Unit 7
Rastafari's Answer to the Color Ladder
Unit 7
Rhodesia: A White Minority Declares 'Independence,' and a War Decides What That Word Actually Means
Unit 7
Rhythms That Would Not Be Silenced: Samba, Bomba, and Cumbia
Unit 7
Sacred Disguise: Santeria, Candomble, and Vodou
Unit 7
Liberia and Sierra Leone: Africa as Destination
Unit 7.5
Punished by Relocation: The Caribbean as Exile
Unit 7.5
Seasoning: The Caribbean as Waystation
Unit 7.5
Not One Voyage: The Myth of the Settled Diaspora
Unit 7.5
Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion
Unit 7.5
Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora
Unit 7.5
Bijlmermeer: A Utopian Suburb Becomes a Surinamese Neighborhood
Unit 7.5
Resistance as Migration, Then and Now: The Diaspora's Unfinished Work
Unit 7.5
Marcus Garvey's Jamaican Roots: A Movement Founded at Home Before It Went to Harlem
Unit 8
Aime Cesaire: Coining a Word, Naming Haiti as Its Origin
Unit 8
The March That Shouldn't Have Been Necessary: 1983
Unit 8
Banlieues, 2005, and the Sans-Papiers: An Unfinished Argument
Unit 8
Angola: A Civil War Fought Mostly by Cubans and South Africans
Unit 8
The Congo Crisis: A Prime Minister Dead Within Seven Months of Independence
Unit 8
Baseball's Two Americas: Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Unit 8
A Language No One Else Speaks: Garifuna Culture and the Fight for Land Today
Unit 9
Balliceaux and Roatan: A Deportation Designed to Kill
Unit 9
A Nation That Almost Existed: The West Indies Federation
Unit 9
A Shipwreck, Not a Slave Ship: Origins on Yurumein
Unit 9
A Word Before It Was a Book
Unit 10
Writing Recognition Into Law: Colombia and Chile
Unit 10
The Road to Durban: Building a Hemispheric Movement
Unit 10
A Live Debate: Is Necropolitics Really Something New?
Unit 10
Calypso: Three Centuries of Singing the News
Unit 11
Liberia: One Warlord, Two Wars, and a Diamond Trade That Connected Them
Unit 11
Europe's Unfinished Question
Unit 12
Barbados Becomes a Republic: The Unfinished Fight
Unit 12
Gaspar Yanga's Long Shadow and Contemporary Afro-Latino Voices
Unit 13
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