Spring 2020  |  AFRO 3865 Section 001: African American History: 1865 to the Present (53361)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
HIST 3865 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 150
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 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 Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?smathieu+AFRO3865+Spring2016
Class Description:
This course begins with the post-Civil War liberation of four million slaves. As the nation's newest citizens, blacks tested and exercised their newfound freedom through marriage, education, migration, and political participation. On the road to freedom during Reconstruction, southern and northern whites conspired to keep blacks in bondage. The process of undercutting the gains of Reconstruction resulted in Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement, and labor discrimination. While detailing black life under Jim Crow, this course also highlights African-American agency through intellectual and cultural production; and union activity and political organization. We then turn a crucial corner during the New Deal era and the Second World War, a period which set the stage for the modern civil rights struggle by unleashing a cadre of black lawyers, social scientists, grassroots activists, and political organizations who worked to tear down the walls of Jim Crow. Next we journey through the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and ask -- What role did black protest culture play in liberating blacks during the second reconstruction? We compare the experiences of black men and women and consider how changing ideals of manhood and womanhood shaped the various rights movements. Finally, the course grapples with a variety of contemporary issues from the black boy crisis, to the rise of hip hop and its appeal to white youth to the recent presidential candidacies of Shirley Crisholm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun, to the monumental election of Barack Obama in 2008.
Grading:
20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation
Class Format:
70% Lecture
15% Film/Video
15% Discussion
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53361/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 November 2008

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