AFS 2210 introduces students to the major conceptual models of African American social and political thought. The course will take a deliberately objectivist approach to presenting dominant ‘models’ that have been consistently shifting and changing and in some cases repeating throughout a Black American history of thinking and acting (i.e., how African descended people in the US and the diaspora have thought, philosophically and conceptually, and how they have acted, pragmatically, functionally).