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Migration and Identity in Indigenous Tribes Sample Chart

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This recourse contains a chart and asks students to compare the Cherokee tribes that stayed in the Appalachians to the tribes that migrated across the US to Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears as well as to the Great Plains tribes who were already in the region. The comparison chart contains a section for culture, agriculture, local governance, and treaties with the US government. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Power, Politics, and History: Africa and the African Diaspora

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This presentation emphasizes demonstrating history’s relevance to the present day and providing students with the tools to critically apply historical thinking. Pivotal to thinking critically about history is understanding the ways that historiographical debates, theoretical frameworks and methodological issues create a historical legacy. This presentation also considers who has the power to shape historical narratives and uses British colonial policy in Africa to think about this question.  

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Teaching Global African Diaspora: Final Paper Assignment

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The final paper assignment asks students to use what they have learned about historical events as part of global processes in a course on the Global African Diaspora. It asks students to explain the historical conditions that may have led people from an African country to move to the United States, as well as any economic and cultural reasons. It asks students to describe the nature of the informal and formal economies in which African immigrants participate. And finally to explain the challenges (legal, financial, cultural, etc.) that African immigrants face and the ways in which they deal with those challenges.

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Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

HIST 3630: Women and Gender in the Modern Transatlantic World

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Debates about families, sex, and sexuality frame the outline of this course. Each of these subjects differed greatly for individuals in all parts of the Atlantic World, and immediately became points of contention in the clash of societies during the early modern era. The course traces key themes and questions in a variety of locations, mainly focused in West Africa (Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria), Europe (England and France), and North America (the U.S. and Mexico) since 1700. In addition to learning about historical subjectivities of people in the past, the course also explores historiography (that is, the history of history) as well as tools and techniques used in researching and interpreting the past.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Interconnected Diasporas: 200 Years of Mobility, Identity, and Community in the Liberian Diaspora

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This presentation considers the Liberia diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focused on mobility, identity, and community. It discusses major political organizations and people related to the history of Liberia including the American Colonization Society and Joseph Jenkins Roberts. The presentation provides links to primary sources related to the people who emigrated to Liberia. 

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Columbian Exchange Course Unit

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This course unit contains, a presentation on the Transatlantic Slave Trade; a presentation on the Columbian Exchange; a primary source worksheet about the impact of the Columbian Exchange; an introductory lesson on power in the Spanish Empire & the development of racial caste systems in the Americas; primary source documents and analysis questions related to the Middle Passage; and finally, discussion questions about the 2016 miniseries Roots.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

AFRO AMER 101: Introduction to African American Studies 2019

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African American Studies 101 is a multidisciplinary course that embodies the empirical study of history, politics, culture, religion and other areas within the social sciences. The essential focus is on the life experiences of peoples of African descent in the United States and globally. The course integrates the works of scholars of ancient African civilization, New World enslavement of African Americans, economics, literature, arts, race, women studies, government and sport studies. Furthermore, through the interdisciplinary lifeline of African American Studies, this course will give special attention to black athleticism.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

AFRS 4010/6610: African Diaspora Theory/Diaspora & Transnational Theories 2020

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This course aims to familiarize students with major concepts and theories related to the study of the African Diaspora primarily, though not exclusively, in the Americas (North, South, and Central). This course links, compares, and contextualizes the historical experiences of African descendants in the U.S., the Caribbean, South America, and Africa within global processes of enslavement, colonialism, and systematic oppression. The course treats the African Diaspora as 1) historical phenomenon 2) a current condition of social, economic, and political life and 3) a way of imagining the future. We will explore theories of slavery, race, and capitalism; black resistance; post-emancipation economies and current-day neoliberalism; theories of gender; environmental justice in the African Diaspora; and theories of the black digital sphere.

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Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

The African Diaspora and Economic Development Lesson

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After a discussion about the African diaspora, students will break into small group and read contemporary secondary sources about global migration, the African diaspora and economic development in Africa, and the Chinese government's response to the African diaspora during the coronavirus pandemic. Students will then share their findings with the class via a shared Google presentation. The learning objectives of this lesson are for students to explain contemporary geographic effects of migration, analyze relationships among and between places to reveal important spatial patterns, explain how government initiatives may affect economic development, and explain the causes and geographic consequences of recent economic changes, such as growing interdependence in the world economy.  

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Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Analysis of Global Migration 1750-1900

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This exercise asks students to read excerpts about global migration and think about the factors that drive migration. Students will assess a series of statements to determine what factors encouraged or discouraged migration and map their analysis onto a map using + and all - symbols. The visual interpretation will help students better understand the push/pull factors involved with global migration movements of the 19th century. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Dred and Harriet Scott Activity

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This activity foregrounds African American historical experiences in the history of the state of Minnesota. Students will navigate multiple historical websites and consult primary historical texts. By synthesizing these primary texts, they will identify a common theme related to Dred or Harriet Scott. Then students will analyze the historical importance of that theme in Minnesota history more broadly. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

Francophone Countries

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In this assignment, students select a Francophone country of their choice. Over the course the year, students are asked to gather and present information about their country to their classmates in French. Themes for presentations include beauty and aesthetics, science and technology, contemporary life, and global challenges.  

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Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

HIST 2381: African American History Syllabus 2020

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This is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the formation and development of the United States to the Civil War/Reconstruction era up to the present. African American History includes the study of African origins and legacy, trans-Atlantic slave trade, experiences of African Americans during Colonial, Revolutionary, Early National, Antebellum, Civil War/Reconstruction, segregation, disenfranchisement, civil rights, migrations, industrialization, world wars, the Harlem Renaissance, and the conditions of African Americans in the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. This course will enable students to understand African American history as an integral part of U.S. history.

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Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

HIST 4390: Exploring the African Diaspora

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Forced to leave the continent of Africa in droves during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, millions of persons of African descent were dispersed throughout the world during the “African Diaspora.” This course introduces students to key theoretical and conceptual debates in African diaspora studies. The course adopts a comparative approach that exposes students to the thought and experiences of descendants of enslaved Africans in various locations throughout the world. Students will examine similarities and differences between the complex histories and diverse cultural expressions of persons of African descent in the Diaspora during the antebellum period, the World Wars, and contemporary times. Attention will be devoted to the African Diaspora in the city of Houston.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Alliance for Learning in World History

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