This survey course introduces students to the content and contours of Africana Studies as a discipline and highlights its genealogy, development, and future challenges. The course focuses on the black experience in its historical and current unfolding in the Americas, particularly the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and Latin America. It also gives attention to how members of the Diaspora have engaged with Africa, and to how Africans have responded to the history of enslavement, colonialism, racism, and globalization. In this course, scholarly literature, film, music, photography, and artwork will be used to develop a critical understanding of the experience of Afro-descended peoples around the world.