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Course Description: The primary goal of the course will be to study the writing of African peoplethroughout the world in order to discover how these works serve as reflections of resistance to slavery,colonialism, neo-colonialism, and other means of oppression and domination. Thus, Studies in theDiaspora will have several objectives. These include: (1) providing a sampling of writing by Africans andthose of African descent; (2) drawing connections between people of African descent who are dispersedthroughout the world; (3) contextualizing their writing with historical and theoretical texts; and (4)analyzing the writing to discover what it tells us about identity formation, diversity, oppression, resistance,and human rights. These goals and objectives will be met through reading, short writing assignments, classdiscussion, and analytical essays.Required Texts: Discourse on Colonialism, The Classic Slave Narratives, Dessa Rose, Invisible Man, TheBluest Eye, Nervous Conditions, Things Fal...