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Migration
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Curriculum Lessons
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
Cultural References
Black Chicago and the Great Migration
Unknown photographer · Photography · 1910
Blues
Archibald Motley · Visual Art · 1929
Harlem Gang Leader Series
Gordon Parks · Photography · 1942
The Block
Romare Bearden · Visual Art · 1971
The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence · Visual Art · 1940
The Migration Series, Panel 1
Jacob Lawrence · Visual Art · 1940
