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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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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]
General Education Area: Social Science
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