HIST 280
African American History: An Introduction
Last Offered Spring 2012
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed AFR 280
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

This course provides a survey of African American History from the earliest importation and migration of Africans to North American through the present day. Our readings and discussions will take up the development, expansion, and organization of slavery, the coming and meaning of freedom, and the political and cultural landscapes of African Americans over time. We will discuss slavery, freedom, civil rights, and racial ideologies. Finally, we will examine the post Civil Rights era, the changing meaning of the designation “African American” in light of global migrations, and African American political power in the 21st century. Our readings, which will include both primary and secondary sources, will help us to interrogate American history and gain an understanding and overview of African American history. The course will be primarily discussion based. Given its focus on the workings of racial ideology and the development of slavery and other forms of unfree labor in the U.S. economic system, this course fulfills the criteria of the Exploring Diversity Initiative.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 40
Expected: 20-30
Class#: 3398
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on three short papers, a take-home final exam, and performance in in-class discussions and assignments
Prerequisites: none; open to all
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 280 Division II AFR 280 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada

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