Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 What Is African American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field and Its Origins

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: How a Field Took Shape, and How It Reads Evidence

    4. 1.2 Africa's Landscape: Climate Zones, Rivers, and Seas

    5. Quiz 1.2

    6. 1.2 Interactive Lab: Five Bands, Five Ways of Life

    7. 1.3 Peoples and Languages: Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity

    8. Quiz 1.3

    9. 1.3 Interactive Lab: Reading the Arrows

    1. 2.1 Africa's Ancient Societies: Nubia, Aksum, and Nok

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.1 Interactive Lab: Reading Ancient Africa: A Time Line and a Coin

    4. 2.2 Ghana, Mali, and Songhai: Gold, Salt, and the Trans-Saharan Trade

    5. Quiz 2.2

    6. 2.2 Interactive Lab: Following the Gold: Empires and a Map

    7. 2.3 Learning Traditions: Griots, Timbuktu, and the Epic of Sundiata

    8. Quiz 2.3

    9. 2.4 Southern and East Africa: Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili Coast

    10. Quiz 2.4

    11. 2.4 Interactive Lab: Follow the Gold: Great Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean

    1. 3.1 Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism: Beliefs, Christianity, and Islam in Africa

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.2 The Kingdom of Kongo: Conversion to Catholicism and Nzinga Mbemba's Letter

    4. Quiz 3.2

    5. 3.2 Interactive Lab: Reading a King's Letter: Nzinga Mbemba, 1526

    6. 3.3 Kinship and Leadership: Day Names, Families, and Queen Idia

    7. Quiz 3.3

    8. 3.3 Interactive Lab: Reading Sources on Women's Power: Idia and Njinga

    9. 3.4 Global Africans: Iberian Port Cities and Atlantic Island Plantations

    10. Quiz 3.4

    11. 3.4 Interactive Lab: From Island Colonies to Lisbon's Riverfront

    1. 4.1 African Explorers in the Americas: Ladinos and Atlantic Creoles

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.1 Interactive Lab: Africans with the Spanish: Roles and Sources

    4. 4.2 Departure Zones and the Slave Trade to the United States

    5. Quiz 4.2

    6. 4.2 Interactive Lab: These Numbers Are People

    7. 4.3 Capture and Its Impact on West African Societies

    8. Quiz 4.3

    9. 4.4 Resistance at Sea: Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement

    10. Quiz 4.4

    11. 4.4 Interactive Lab: Reading the Brookes Plan

    12. 4.5 Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade

    13. Quiz 4.5

    14. 4.5 Interactive Lab: Reading the Census and Northup

    1. 5.1 Labor, Culture, and Economy: Work on Plantations and in Cities

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.2 Slave Codes and Landmark Cases: Slavery and American Law

    4. Quiz 5.2

    5. 5.2 Interactive Lab: Reading Slavery's Laws

    6. 5.3 The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of Status

    7. Quiz 5.3

    8. 5.3 Interactive Lab: Reading Act XII and Thinking About Race

    9. 5.4 Creating African American Culture: Family, Faith, and Music

    10. Quiz 5.4

    11. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Roots and Settings: Music, Language, and a Signed Jar

    12. 5.5 Black Pride, Identity, and the Question of Naming

    13. Quiz 5.5

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