HIST 1595 - [African American History from 1865]

(crosslisted) AMST 1595, ASRC 1595
(HST-AS, SCD-AS) (D-AG, HA-AG)

Fall. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Student option grading.

R. Rickford.

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction “Nadir” of black life; the mass black insurgency against structural racism before and after World War II; and the Post-Reform Age that arose in the wake of the dismantling of legal segregation. The course will familiarize students with the basic themes of African-American life and experience and equip them to grasp concepts of political economy; class formation; and the intersection of race, class and gender. (HNA)