HIST 234L - African-American History

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course examines the experiences, struggles, and contributions of African-Americans in U.S. history. Beginning with the development of race as a concept, we will trace the ways and moments in U.S. history When this idea manifested itself in American law, economics, politics, society, and culture. The topics we will cover include but are not limited to: the development of racial slavery, scientific racism, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and a broadly defined Black Freedom Struggle, spanning the Depression and World War II to the Civil Rights Era of the 1950s and ‘60s through to Black Lives Matter in the present.