Utilizing a four-field approach, this course will look at the migrations from Africa to the rest of the world through DNA markers, material and social culture explore the changing meanings and presentations of pan-Africans in literature, religion, art, and film discover some of the ways in which scientists and social scientists trace physical and cultural artifacts, and note some of the controversies and contexts for cultural claims. From cuisine to crafts, technologies to the arts, pan-Africans have influenced our language, music, philosophies, and social policies in ways both direct and subtle. In providing the largest body of slave labor in known history, Africans changed the cultures of all inhabitants of the Americas and were themselves changed in the process.