African American Historiography from 1865 to the Present

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A graduate seminar on the historiography of African Americans from 1865 to the present. Students in this class will become familiar with the major topics, themes, methods and scholarly debates in this field that will then allow them to identify potential research topics in African American history, enhance their teaching on the subject, as public-school educators, while sharpening their critical and analytical thinking skills. Readings in this class include scholarly works on the history of emancipation, resistance, gender, the rise of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the urban North, and the long Civil Rights-Black Power era to the New Jim Crow.