ClassInfo - Spring 2018 African Amer & African Studies Classes

Spring 2018 | AFRO 3868W Section 001: Race, War, and Race Wars in American History (51493)

Instructor(s): Malinda Lindquist
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:: HIST 3868W Section 090
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Mon 05:30PM - 08:00PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 235
Enrollment Status:: Open (8 of 10 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Role that race has played in American war history. Impact that wars have had on race and race relations in the United States and the world. Literature and film.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lindqust+AFRO3868W+Spring2016
Class Description:: Race and war are powerful engines of change and both have fundamentally shaped how Americans think about themselves, their nation, and citizenship. From the Indian Wars, Mexican American Wars and Civil Wars to the World Wars, Cold Wars, Vietnam Wars, and the recent Iraq Wars, this course examines the complicated nexus between race and war. Examining these conflicts from the military's, the citizen-soldiers', racial minorities', and war hawks' and doves' perspectives, will allow students to unravel the relationships between war, democracy, patriotism, exclusion, violence, rhetoric, masculinity, and citizenship. Wars have transformed our racial and social landscapes, however, the gendered and classed nature of wartime experiences and military discourse will also receive considerable attention. All wars, however, are not waged by standing militaries. Racial violence, riots, and lynchings, that is, the race wars waged in rural, urban, and suburban America are also explored. The theme of war also invites a consideration of how the rhetoric of war (i.e. the War on Poverty, the Drug War, the Border or Immigration Wars, and War on Terror) has figured into racial politics and policy making. At the conclusion of this course, students will be familiar with how wars (foreign, domestic, and rhetorical) have transformed the racial geography of the nation and how race continues to inform contemporary debates.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51493/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 13 November 2013

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