HIST 7450X African American History
(Prior to Fall 2010, this course was known as HIST 745.2. The information below might still reflect the old course numbers. Bracketed numbers, if any, are the old course numbers. Learn more...)
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits
African American history, historiography, and epistemologies within the framework of major landmarks, including the role of Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic World; enslavement, structural racism, and emancipation in North America; the Great Migration; civil rights struggles and meanings of freedom; and the legacies of this history in contemporary society. Underlying connecting themes include racial formation mediated by constructs of gender, sex, and sexuality; memory and diaspora; politics of representation in scholarship and popular culture; and the interplay between ?agency,? and structure in African American pasts.
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