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AP African American Studies

4 units · 15 topics · 272 lessons · Exam: May

An interdisciplinary course on African American history, culture, and thought, from early African societies to the present.

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  1. 1Origins of the African Diaspora
  2. 2Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
  3. 3The Practice of Freedom
  4. 4Movements and Debates
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Origins of the African Diaspora

Africa's societies, empires, and cultures before and during the slave trade.

  1. 1What Is African American Studies?Up next121 lessons
  2. 2Early African Kingdoms and Empires8 lessons
  3. 3Learning Traditions and Kinship in AfricaCoverage growing
  4. 4The Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade7 lessons
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Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance

Enslavement in the Americas and the many forms of resistance.

  1. 1Enslavement in the AmericasLessons from this unit
  2. 2Creating African American CultureCoverage growing
  3. 3Resistance and Abolition16 lessons
  4. 4The Civil War and Black Communities13 lessons
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The Practice of Freedom

Reconstruction through the Harlem Renaissance.

  1. 1Reconstruction and Jim Crow28 lessons
  2. 2Uplift, Institutions, and Black EducationCoverage growing
  3. 3The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance31 lessons
4

Movements and Debates

Civil rights, Black Power, and contemporary debates.

  1. 1Négritude, Anticolonialism, and WWIICoverage growing
  2. 2The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements17 lessons
  3. 3Black Feminism and Intersectionality6 lessons
  4. 4Contemporary DebatesLessons from this unit