Readings in African-American Intellectual History

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Examines some of the major themes and thinkers in the development of the African-American intellectual tradition from the black abolitionists to the present. Major topics of the course include the formation of black oppositional leadership in the Reconstruction south, Booker T. Washington and racial accommodation, W.E.B. DuBois and integration, along with Black Nationalism and contemporary, black-feminist theory.