It focuses on the ways in which African Americans established their own cultures and worlds as they resisted and opposed various types of oppression, including slavery, segregation, dispossession and disfranchisement. This course is an exploration of the rich diversity of cultures and societies of contemporary Europe, in addition to an introduction to the continent’s geography and how its unique bodily attributes formed world historical past. Critical readings of current ethnography will be used to look at themes corresponding to ethnicity and migration, rural life and traditionalism, and family and kinship.