01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR
East Building 122
Section Information for Spring 2016
This course is the second part of a two-semester examination of African American history in the United States. This semester we study the African American experience in the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present. The course uses music, film, and literature as well as primary historical documents to bring this history to life. A central goal of the course is to understand how African Americans responded to the racial segregation and discrimination that arose after the end of slavery. Main topics covered include: the origins of Jim Crow segregation, the history of lynching, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans in the military during WWII and Vietnam, black nationalism, the modern civil rights movement, debates about affirmative action, and the impact of mass incarceration on African Americans.
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Credits: 3
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