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| 0621-3284-01 | African-American History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
This seminar will focus on major issues in the history of African-Americans from emancipation until today. Among other topics we will discuss migration, community building, incarceration, freedom struggles, and the creation of modern black culture. We will study a range of primary sources, including films and music, and engage with the central debates among historians on the nature of the black experience over the last 150 years.