African American History 1876 to Present

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This course provides a study of the major events, issues, and personalities in African American history from Reconstruction to the present. It introduces the freedom-oriented practices for Black progress, social transformation, and well-being that African Americans have pursued through varieties of advocacy, organizing, and cultural creativity in the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and early-twenty-first centuries. Students will explore this history while maintaining an analytical focus on intersecting factors in the pursuit of Black freedom in the United States, including class, (dis)ability, gender, generation, orientation, race, region, and religion.