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| Semester | spring semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Julia Tischler (julia.tischler@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | From the late 19th century onwards, Africans established close personal and institutional links with African Americans and black West Indians, who were commonly referred to as “American Negroes”. Many colonized Africans came to regard black Americans, having overcome the yoke of slavery, as potential liberators and role models. The “American Negro” came to feature prominently in educational programmes, agricultural development schemes, labor struggles, religious movements, and political criticism. There were numerous and at times conflicting trajectories of transatlantic Pan-Africanism, from “radical” versions, including Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest black-led movement to the moderate reform agendas of self-help promoted by Booker T. Washington. The “American Negro” however did not only feature in Africans’ ambitions for liberation, but was also appropriated by colonial administrators. In the early 20th century, numerous colonial officials drew inspiration from the US-American segregationist south in an attempt to engineer a docile and productive African labor force. The seminar will engage with these ambivalent transatlantic entanglements on the level of political visions and policies, while also tracing concrete manifestations on the ground. |
| Bibliography | James T. Campbell, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (Oxford, 1998). G. Fredrickson, Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (Oxford 1999). Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, 2010). Robert Trent Vinson, The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa (Athens, OH, 2012). |
| Comments | Sessions will take place bi-weekly, starting on 1rst March: 01.03.2019 15.03.2019 29.03.2019 12.04.2019 26.04.2019 10.05.2019 17.05.2019 |
| Admission requirements | Für Master- und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende der Geschichte. Bachelorstudierende weisen den Abschluss der Grundstufe des BSF Geschichte nach (mindestens 3 Proseminare und 3 Proseminararbeiten). Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Modules |
Modul Fachwissenschaft / Geschichte (Master's Studies: Educational Sciences) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Europa Global (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Geschlechtergeschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Moderne (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |