Creating a Team-Taught Interdisciplinary Course and Digital Library on Black Liberation in the USA and Caribbean

FAIN: AB-303550-25

Howard University (Washington, DC 20059-0001)
Yasmin Y. DeGout (Project Director: May 2024 to present)
Nikongo baNikongo (Co Project Director: May 2024 to present)
Kenton Rambsy (Co Project Director: May 2024 to present)

A three-year curriculum development project focused on the histories of Afro-diasporan liberation movements in the United States and the Caribbean.

This project aims to advance humanities studies at Howard University by developing a team-taught interdisciplinary course and digital library that explore the history of shared Afro-diasporan liberation movements between the Caribbean and the USA. Addressing a largely underexplored area of research in the field of African Diaspora Studies, this intervention expands relational understanding across the diaspora and places freedom movements in perspective for students witnessing, sometimes experiencing, the global rise of authoritarianism and threats to human liberty, particularly for groups that have been minoritized.