This course will provide students with an in-depth overview of anti-Black racism and colonialism and their impact on the health of African/Black populations from an intersectional perspective. This overview will examine the linkages between the construction of race, and the realities of anti-Black racism from the transatlantic slave trade to historical and contemporary policies and practices that have negatively impacted the health of African descendants and their communities within Canada and in transnational contexts. The course will be grounded in an intersectional framework that will examine anti-Black racism as intrinsically linked to other social determinants of health, including social exclusion based on categories such as gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identities, disabilities, as well as spiritualities/religious affiliations.