HAFR 360 - African Diasporic Cultures: The Gullah Geechee Experience

Credit Hours: 3

This course provides students with an interdisciplinary understanding of the Gullah-Geechee people. Students enrolled in Africana Studies 360 will read, analyze, and interpret major works about and by people from the 180 square mile area that stretches from the North Carolina to the Florida coast and comprises the Gullah homeland. This area, particularly around the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands serves as a rich repository of African Diasporic Culture and offers an opportunity to study the transmission of certain African traditions, language, and aesthetic practices throughout the American cultural landscape. Representative historical, cultural, sociological, linguistic, and literary works from the antebellum period until the present will be read and discussed.