HIST 0264 - African American History

Credits: 3

This course covers topics relating to African American history since the origins of American racial slavery during the colonial period through the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. Discussions include the international slave trade, the meaning(s) of racial slavery, conflicts between slavery and democracy, slave resistance, the rise of a distinctive African American identity and culture, African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction, segregation, Jim Crow laws, the evolving concept of "race" and the limits of American citizenship, the Harlem Renaissance, the "nadir" of American race relations, African Americans and the two-party political system, the changing status of African Americans during wartime(s), legal and legislative civil rights protests, economic and class factors impacting the African American experience, and the modern Civil Rights Movement.


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