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HIS 130 African American HIS to 1865

This course examines the history of African Americans in the United States from their African origins to the Civil War and emancipation through primary and secondary readings and visual and aural texts. It focuses on the ways that African Americans established their own cultures and worlds as they resisted and opposed various forms of oppression, including slavery, segregation, dispossession and disfranchisement. It provides students with an understanding of their key struggles for freedom, equality, community, power, and identity, including those related to gender and class, and of their integrative and alternative political, economic and social visions and institutions. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 130 and HIS 130*D HIS 130*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement.
  • Level: 100
  • Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)