What we’re teaching | Ce que nous enseignons

Browse this selection of the courses and seminars with antiracist and/or decolonial content that we’re teaching at all levels of our program curricula. We are still adding to this page. Teaching a history course with decolonial and/or antiracist content? Contact us. We’d love to share your syllabus.

Parcourez cette sélection de cours et de séminaires ayant des composants antiracistes ou décoloniaux que nous enseignons à tous les niveaux de nos programmes. Enseignez-vous un cours en histoire avec un contenu décolonial et/ou antiraciste? Contactez-nous. Nous aimerions bien partager votre plan de cours.


niveau | 1000 | level

HIS 1110: Introduction to Global History

Professors Allina and Terretta co-teach this course which they subtitle “Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slavery and Colonialism in Historical Perspective.” Since slavery and colonialism touched virtually all parts of the globe in the last half millenium, we find that teaching students to think historically about these phenomena provides an essential introduction to global history.

Hommages au général Thomas Alexandre Dumas, Commémoration de l’abolition de l’esclavage, 17è arrondissement, Paris

niveau | 2000 | level

HIS 2300: Global Environmental History

Dr. Rück teaches this course on the history of human interactions with environments and non-human species over the last 10,000 years. It places environmental history in the context of settler colonialism, environmental racism, patriarchy, and the global history of capitalism.


niveau | 3000 | level

HIS 3585: La décolonisation de l’Afrique francophone (Thèmes choisis en histoire africaine)

La Deuxième Guerre mondiale constitue un moment important dans l’émergence et l’évolution des mouvements de libération indépendantistes en Afrique, un continent majoritairement sous domination coloniale. Les populations africaines s’organisent en partis politiques, syndicats, et mouvements sociaux et religieux, pour réclamer l’autodétermination qu’elles estimaient leur droit. Ce cours examine l’évolution et la variété de ces mouvements en Afrique coloniale francophone.

“Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant,” Tshibumba Kanda-Matula

niveau | 4000 | level


History 4151-A: Black Lives Matter: African American Social Movements and Political Activism in Twentieth Century America, Fall 2020

This course taught by Dr. Murray explores the origins and antecedents of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Students and professor together consider what—if anything—this movement has in common with other Black activist movements and rights culture over the course of the twentieth century, such as anti-lynching activism, civil rights, and Black Power.

A new street sign sits above an intersection outside St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., where President Trump arranged a photo-op this week. Mayor Muriel Bowser says, “The section of 16th [Street] in front of the White House is now officially ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza.’

niveau | 7000 | level

HIS 7338: Decolonizing Africa in an Internationalizing World

Dr. Terretta teaches this seminar. Students learn to consider African decolonization within an internationalist or transregional framework, guided by big questions about sovereignty, race and racialization, federation, alienation of land, extraterritorial political sites beyond borders, transnational solidarities, and worldmaking.

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