A Class at the Smithsonian [Second Look]

Did you know there’s an Honors course that actually meets at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art It’s true!  There are still seats left for this only-at-GW course.  (The course only sometimes meets at the museum, other times it’s here on campus)
Africans in America
Professor Nemata Blyden
HONR 2175:10 – 3 Credits
CRN: 56789
T 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Equivalent: HONR: Arts and Humanities 2054
People of African descent have lived in the United States since the 17th century. Largely involuntary migrants, their experiences were shaped by the experience of bondage and involuntary servitude, repressive and discriminatory legislation, and oppression. This course will focus on more recent African arrivals to the United States, exploring the history of Africans who voluntarily migrated to the country – African immigrants. The course will examine Africans who came to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century as students, visitors, missionaries, and temporary residents. It will also examine the experience of those Africans who arrived in the United States, following the liberalization of immigration laws in the 1960’s. Themes to be explored include reasons for African migration, settlement patterns, adjustment issues, and relationships with Americans, black and white. As much as possible we will assess the experience of these migrants from their own perspectives as immigrants in a new land.