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Migration

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Two Peoples, Two Societies: The Taino and the Kalinago

Unit 1

1492: The Fall of Granada and the End of Al-Andalus

Unit 1

Lisbon: One in Ten

Unit 2

The Compromise — Constitutional Complicity (1787–1789)

Unit 3.5

The Reality of the 'Closing' — The Second Middle Passage (1808–1815)

Unit 3.5

Trinidad: A Colony Reshaped by Refugees Before the British Even Arrived

Unit 4

The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)

Unit 4

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

Unit 4

Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer

Unit 4.5

The Three Pillars: Black Church, HBCUs, and the Divine Nine

Unit 4.5

Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name

Unit 4.5

Harlem Renaissance to Negritude: The Atlantic Circuit

Unit 5

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

Unit 5

Blanqueamiento: Engineering a Whiter Nation

Unit 5

The Myth of Racial Democracy: Freyre, Vasconcelos, and the 'Cosmic Race'

Unit 5

Anti-Haitianismo and the 1937 Parsley Massacre

Unit 5

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

Unit 5.5

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

Unit 6

Matonge: A Neighborhood Built in Three Waves

Unit 6

A Private Colony: Leopold II and the Congo Free State

Unit 6

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

Unit 6

Why the Order Matters

Unit 6

From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism

Unit 6

'A New System of Slavery': The Origins of Indian Indentureship

Unit 6

Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem

Unit 6.5

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

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

Cova da Moura: Building a Neighborhood in the Capital of Empire

Unit 7

The Retornados: A Category That Hid a Racial Divide

Unit 7

The Great Migration: Urban Cultural Transformation

Unit 7

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

Unit 7

Sacred Disguise: Santeria, Candomble, and Vodou

Unit 7

Liberia and Sierra Leone: Africa as Destination

Unit 7.5

The Haitian Thread: Revolution, Refuge, and the Long Struggle

Unit 7.5

Running North: Black Canada and the Diaspora's Northern Arc

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

Zwarte Piet: Fifty Years of the Same Argument

Unit 7.5

Resistance as Migration, Then and Now: The Diaspora's Unfinished Work

Unit 7.5

Building the Trente Glorieuses: Recruiting Labor from Empire

Unit 8

Pelé and the 'Whitening' of Brazilian Football

Unit 8

Black Wall Street and the Architecture of Black Wealth

Unit 8

A Route That Didn't Used to Exist at This Scale

Unit 9

Paying to Keep Them There: The EU-Libya Agreements

Unit 9

Search and Rescue on Trial: NGOs, Criminalization, and an Unresolved Debate

Unit 9

Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination

Unit 10

Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America

Unit 10

Citizens of Empire: The 1948 Voyage and Its Legal Foundation

Unit 10

One Word, Many Countries: Testing the Framework

Unit 10

La Sentencia: Statelessness and the Fight for Recognition

Unit 10

The Evolution of Black Gospel Music

Unit 10

The Windrush Scandal: When Britain Turned on Its Own Citizens

Unit 10

Silver Roll to Stateside: How Afro-Panamanians Became Part of Black America

Unit 11

Counted or Erased? The U.S. Census and the Fight for Afro-Latino Visibility

Unit 11

Between Two Movements: Organizations Bridging Black and Latino America

Unit 11

Freedom Without Land: The Origins of Rio's Favelas

Unit 12

Europe's Unfinished Question

Unit 12

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