Syllabus

Howard University

Fall 2015 Semester

Introduction to Afro American Studies I1

AFRO 005, Section 02, CRN 81798

Tuesdays/Thursdays, 8:10-9:30 a.m.

Howard Mackey Building [Architecture Building] Auditorium {HMB 201]2

Greg Carr, Ph.D., JD, Associate Professor3

Office: Founder’s Library, Room 3194

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According to the Department of Afro-American Studies Course Description document, this course

“provides a survey of selected major factors which helped create the African-American experience: the

cultures of pre-colonial Africa, the slave experience in the Americas, life in post-rural and urban North

America, etc.”

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Howard Mackey [1901-1987] was the founding Dean of the Howard University School of Architecture.

He is generally remembered as the educator of the most registered architects of African descent in the

United States, and a trainer of other African architects who returned to Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Puerto

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Rico, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and elsewhere to design and the Howard University School of Architecture.

Howard Mackey [1901-1987] was the founding Dean of build. Mackey designed a number of homes in

He is generally remembered as the educator of the most registered architects of African descent in the

United States, and a trainer of other African architects who returned to Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Puerto

Rico, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and elsewhere to design and build. Mackey designed a number of homes in

the D.C. area, including the home of Ralph J. Bunche. He assumed leadership of the Department of

Architecture in 1934, and headed the Department’s transition to form the School of Architecture and

Planning in 1970.

Mackey’s leadership served to extend...