Black History Since Civil War

Catalog description

The history of Black Americans from Reconstruction to the present day. Students will examine the unity and diversity of the Black experience, including the myriad social, cultural, political, and economic conditions that created this experience. They will also explore the ways in which African-Americans have shaped American history and culture, and their efforts, in concert with other Americans, to subvert, transcend, and otherwise reform a discriminatory landscape and reassert the founding principles of the American republic.