Courses

HIS 131 African American History Since 1865

This course explores African American history from the end of the Civil War to the present by engaging wide-ranging issues, debates and topics that have shaped African American experiences since emancipation. Students will examine the struggles by African Americans to exert power over their own images and identities within a white power structure, to establish and define national leadership and institutions, to develop and implement protest strategies, to achieve their social, economic and political objectives, to redress economic inequality, and to express black cultural styles. In the process, the course will concentrate on African American agency, including the nature of both their resistance and oppression, and centrality of African Americans to shaping American history. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 131 and HIS 131*D HIS 131*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement.
  • Level: 100
  • Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)