What is Transatlantic Reconnection?

An interactive learning platform connecting continental African students with the history, culture, and diaspora narratives of the African American experience.

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Historical Figure

Marcus Garvey

1887 – 1940

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader and publisher who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and became the most influential Black nationalist leader of the 20th century. His 'Back to Africa' movement mobilized millions of Black people across the diaspora in the 1920s.

International Diaspora Connections Freedom and Resistance Black Business

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Unit 2

Edward Blyden and the 'African Personality'

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

Unit 4

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

Unit 5

Harlem Renaissance to Negritude: The Atlantic Circuit

Unit 6

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

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

Unit 7

Rastafari: A Prophecy, a Coronation, and a Movement

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

Rastafari's Answer to the Color Ladder

Unit 8

Marcus Garvey's Jamaican Roots: A Movement Founded at Home Before It Went to Harlem

Unit 10

Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition

Unit 11

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

Unit 4.5

The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline

Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer

Marcus Garvey, the UNIA & the Black Star Line

HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University

Unit 7.5

Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion

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