World War II

Zera Yacob: A Rationalist Philosopher, Alone in a Cave

Unit 1

What Survived the Crossing?

Unit 1

Aksum: One of the World's Four Great Powers

Unit 1

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

Unit 1

Timbuktu: A City Built Around Its Libraries

Unit 1

Survival, Not Extinction

Unit 1

Ifa: An Oral Encyclopedia of Yoruba Thought

Unit 1

Two Peoples, Two Societies: The Taino and the Kalinago

Unit 1

711: An Army Crosses From Africa Into Europe

Unit 1

The Kouroukan Fouga: Africa's Constitutional Charter

Unit 1

Africa and the World Before Europe Dominated It

Unit 1

Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe & Al-Qarawiyyeen

Unit 1

The Empires of Ghana, Mali & Songhai

Unit 1

Barbados and the British 'Sugar Revolution'

Unit 2

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

Unit 2

Edward Blyden and the 'African Personality'

Unit 2

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

Unit 2

Manchester, 1945: When Petition Became Demand

Unit 2

104 Days in Berlin

Unit 2

Gender & Resistance: Women Who Refused

Unit 2

Brazil & the Largest African Diaspora in the Americas

Unit 2

Senghor's Architecture: Emotion, Reason, and a 'Civilization of the Universal'

Unit 3

Leon Damas: The Founder Who Published First and Is Remembered Least

Unit 3

The Haitian Revolution: When Rebellion Won

Unit 3

John Blanke: The Only Portrait We Have

Unit 3

Nanny of the Maroons: Legacy, Leadership, and Complication

Unit 3

AAVE: A Rule-Governed Language, Not 'Broken English'

Unit 3

The Engineered Divide: Colorism & the Plantation Hierarchy

Unit 3

The Ring Shout & The Kongo Yowa

Unit 3

Three Belief Systems, One Crisis of Conscience

Unit 4

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

1931: A Colonial Exposition Displays the Soldiers Who Fought for France

Unit 4

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

Unit 4

Josephine Baker and Montmartre's Black Expatriate Scene

Unit 4

Freedom's Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil War

Unit 4

The Affranchis: How Color Divided the Revolution From Within

Unit 4

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

Unit 4

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

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

HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University

Unit 4.5

Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name

Unit 4.5

Harlem Renaissance to Negritude: The Atlantic Circuit

Unit 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

Eleven Million People, Relocated: Villagization's Documented Cost

Unit 5

The 'Black Shame': A Propaganda Campaign Built to Humiliate

Unit 5

Ghana: The Model Nkrumah Built and Then Offered to Everyone Else

Unit 5

The 1968 Olympics: Carlos, Smith, and the Raised Fist

Unit 5.5

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

Unit 5.5

The Global Court: African and Caribbean Athletes and the Diaspora

Unit 5.5

The Black Female Athlete: Gibson, Rudolph, and the Serena Paradox

Unit 5.5

Muhammad Ali: Resistance, Religion, and Refusal

Unit 5.5

Jackie Robinson and the Integration Bargain

Unit 5.5

Jesse Owens, Berlin 1936, and the Propaganda of Excellence

Unit 5.5

Jack Johnson and the Politics of Black Masculinity

Unit 5.5

The Black Body as Contested Territory: An Introduction

Unit 5.5

Liverpool and Bristol: Ports Built on the Trade Itself

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

The Civil Rights Movement: From Brown to Selma (1954–1965)

Unit 6

Vietnam: Black Service, Black Resistance

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

'Look, a Negro!': Black Skin, White Masks and the Psychology of Colonization

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

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

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

Black Cinema: From Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay

Unit 6.5

Health Equity and the Present Moment: When the Body Is Still the Battlefield

Unit 7

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

Unit 7

Rastafari: A Prophecy, a Coronation, and a Movement

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

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

Unit 7

Namibia: A Colony Twice Over, Freed Through International Law

Unit 7

The Great Migration: Urban Cultural Transformation

Unit 7

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

Unit 7

Rhythms That Would Not Be Silenced: Samba, Bomba, and Cumbia

Unit 7

Capoeira: The Martial Art Disguised as Dance

Unit 7

Sacred Disguise: Santeria, Candomble, and Vodou

Unit 7

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

Seasoning: The Caribbean as Waystation

Unit 7.5

Not One Voyage: The Myth of the Settled Diaspora

Unit 7.5

You Could Be From Anywhere: Genealogy and the Moving Diaspora

Unit 7.5

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

Unit 7.5

Aime Cesaire: Coining a Word, Naming Haiti as Its Origin

Unit 8

Redlining and the GI Bill: How Federal Policy Built the Racial Wealth Gap

Unit 8

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

Unit 8

A Belgian Missionary 'Discovers' African Philosophy

Unit 8

Hountondji's Rejection: 'An Ethnological Work With Philosophical Pretensions'

Unit 8

Pelé and the 'Whitening' of Brazilian Football

Unit 8

The Ring as Refuge: Cuban Boxing After Maceo

Unit 8

Reparations: The Argument, the History, and the Debate

Unit 8

Black Wall Street and the Architecture of Black Wealth

Unit 8

Healing Communities: African Americans in Medicine and Public Health

Unit 9

The Blockade: A Military Strategy That Became a Question About Genocide

Unit 9

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

1962: Two Independences in the Same Month

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

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

Unit 10

Citizens of Empire: The 1948 Voyage and Its Legal Foundation

Unit 10

A Word Before It Was a Book

Unit 10

Justice for a Million Cases: The Gacaca Courts and Their Limits

Unit 10

A Census That Became a Weapon

Unit 10

A Cold Welcome: Discrimination and the 1958 Notting Hill Riots

Unit 10

The Hamitic Hypothesis: How Colonial Race Science Manufactured a Genocide's Categories

Unit 10

Imagining Freedom: African Futurism and Afrofuturism

Unit 10

From Declaration to Decade: What Recognition Still Does Not Guarantee

Unit 10

The Road to Durban: Building a Hemispheric Movement

Unit 10

A Live Debate: Is Necropolitics Really Something New?

Unit 10

Mbembe's Necropolitics: Extending Foucault Into the Colony

Unit 10

Calypso: Three Centuries of Singing the News

Unit 11

From Studio One to the World: Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae

Unit 11

Skin Bleaching and the Politics of 'Browning' in Dancehall

Unit 11

A Killing in Minneapolis, a Statue in Bristol

Unit 11

Liberia: One Warlord, Two Wars, and a Diamond Trade That Connected Them

Unit 11

Somalia: A State That Stopped Existing

Unit 11

The Youngest Continent, and Its Oldest Leaders

Unit 12

From a 'Dictators' Club' to an Institution With Actual Tools

Unit 12

Skin Bleaching Across the Continent: A Contemporary Legacy of Colonial Race Hierarchy

Unit 12

The Data Behind the Displacement: Measuring the Racial Wealth Gap Today

Unit 12

Fleeing to the City: Afro-Colombian Displacement and the Comunas of Medellin

Unit 12

Reggaeton's Contested Origins: Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Cost of Global Success

Unit 13