HIST 3550 - African American History

Hours: 4
Students will study the political, intellectual and social history of the African-American community from its roots in Africa, through the period of slavery, to the struggle for civil rights in the present day. Topics include Africans as explorers of New World, African Americans as patriots, pioneers, and politicians in the early American Republic, comparative slavery systems, the rise and fall of Jim Crow segregation, gender issues, borderlands issues, and key intellectual debates such as those of DuBois/Washington, Herskovits/Frazier, and King/Malcolm X.

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HIST 3550 - African American History