HIST 3865 is also offered in Spring 2025
HIST 3865 is also offered in Spring 2024
HIST 3865 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2019 | HIST 3865 Section 001: African American History, 1865 to Present (68753)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
AFRO 3865 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- History of African American men and women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Discussion of internal migrations, industrialization and unionization, The Great Depression, world wars, and large scale movements for social and political change.
- Class Description:
- This course explores the period between Reconstruction and the meaning of black freedom after the Civil War to contemporary issues such as reparations and racial profiling. Afro 3865 begins by examining how the Civil War culminated in the liberation of four million slaves and the attempt by constitutional amendments to right the wrongs of the previous period of enslavement.Though constitutionally free, Reconstruction ended in failure, stripping African-Americans of their newfound citizenship and ushering in the period of Jim-Crow segregation.The course will detail black life under Jim Crow, but highlight African-American agency in the the realm of politics, labor, sports, music, and intellectual life. The course turns a crucial corner during the New Deal period and discusses how the 1930s and early 1940s set the stage for the modern civil rights struggle. With the Supreme Court's decree directly challenging Jim Crow in 1954, African-Americans entered a new phase in their history where protesting for black rights became a defining feature in American culture during the 1960s and 1970s.New leaders and organizations emerged along with novel cultural forms and expressions.The course ends in the contemporary period.What are we to make of the modern day black struggle around race, class, and gender?How are we to interpret the demand for reparations in the age of dismantling affirmative action?What about heightened incidences of police brutality?How do they all connect to the past?
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68753/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 May 2007
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 History Classes Taught by Keith Mayes