2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIST 324 - African- American History


Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the major debates in African-American history from the early modern period to the present. Students will explore African-American identity and history through film, music, and an array of primary source documents. Some of the themes and topics that will be covered are: African life at the time of the arrival of European slavers; African resistance and cultural hybridization under slave conditions in the American colonies; the Civil War and Reconstruction; Jim Crow segregation; the Civil Rights movement; and contemporary African-American and Black culture and political activism. [M; W; C, I]