Voices of Black Anti-Racism and Resistance

Catalog description

A research, writing-intensive, and discursive course that emphasizes bibliographical, historical, and the contemporary critical analyses of significant speeches, lyrics, movements, and other artifacts by African-Americans. Students will examine, the narratives of enslaved people, artifacts from the Antebellum period, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter, and Anti-Racist movement. Emphasis is placed on public address, social movement rhetoric, music, Hip Hop culture, intersectional perspectives, and images of African Americans historically to the present.