HIST 81AFRICAN AMERICAN UNITED STATES HISTORY

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A survey of the history of peoples of African descent in the United States from colonial times to the present. Emphasis will be placed on struggles over the construction of race and ethnicity, slavery and emancipation, the meanings of freedom and democracy, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements' philosophies and strategies for achieving full citizenship, and the persistence of inequality and social justice in the contemporary period. Also listed as ES 81. Credit given in either area, not both.