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### Fall, 2015

  [### The Making of Modern Africa

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

 

Africa is a place of stunning size and diversity: the continent includes over a billion people, living in 54 countries, speaking some 2,000 languages. Yet most Americans know very little about it. News comes to us in bits and pieces, and the news is often bad: Ebola, Boko...



 

  



### Spring, 2016

  [### Colloquium: Apartheid and the Anti-Apartheid Movement

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

This colloquium examines the rise and fall of apartheid (“separateness”), the infamous regime of racial separation and inequality that ruled South Africa from 1948 to 1994. We consider how apartheid built upon and differed from other regimes of colonialism and segregation in...



 

   [### Women and Gender in African History

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

“You strike a woman, you strike a rock!” Versions of this rallying cry have animated women’s movements against colonialism and postcolonial oppression around the African continent. This course examines the changing politics of gender across modern sub-Saharan African history...



 

   [### World History since 1500

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

How did we end up here? How did the world come to look as it does now? In 2015, we face multiple global crises: socioeconomic inequality, religious extremism, and climate change, to name just a few. But we can also see new possibilities for positive change, through new...