Blackness is not a monolith. Indeed, the various permutations of Black identities cover a plethora of countries, experiences, and histories. And yet, there remain common threads that connect the disparate threads of the African Diaspora in the struggle against discrimination and oppression transnationally. What does it mean to be Black? How does being Black shapes one’s understanding of their world and identity? This course seeks to interrogate these questions and much more to get to a better understanding how Black political identities interact on the transnational level.