HIST 401 - The Caribbean Experience

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered in alternate years, usually in the spring semester

This course approaches the study of the Caribbean from the perspective of Caribbean people’s unceasing attempts to re-interpret and re-evaluate their history and to control their present destiny. Calypso and Reggae music and the Caribbean “songs of experience” form the major primary sources from which we explore notions of race and identity, slavery and liberation, religion and government and gender and sexuality within the Caribbean setting.