Demonstrate a full ability to analyze and interpret how enslavement and oppression shape the racial, gendered, social, economic, and political realities of African-descended people in the U.S.
Recognize and respond to ethical challenges/social justice issues that affect African American people.
Acquire a critical understanding of the human condition.
Course Description This course surveys the long and turbulent journey of African Americans, the rich culture they have cultivated, and their persistent struggle for freedom from the perspective, interests, aspirations, possibilities, and envisioned destinies of African-descended peoples. From African antiquity to the 21st century, students will study: 1) The African background; 2) The Holocaust of Enslavement; 3) Black Resistance and Abolition; 4) Reconstruction; 5) The Jim Crow Era; 6) Civil Rights and Black Power, and 7) The Post-Industrial/Post Civil Rights Era. Credits: 3