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HIS-3061 African American History

This course examines the histories, cultures, struggles and accomplishments of African American people from their involuntary arrival from Africa to the present. The course acknowledges the diversity and complexity of the experiences of African Americans as they struggle to assert their rightful place in the accounts of United States history. Students will study major social events, processes, and key concepts in African American history from early beginnings in indigenous Africa through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era, Black Power, Black Feminism, Black Lives Matter, the Obama Presidency and into the present. Students will work to minimize ethnocentric biases by deconstructing some of the misrepresentations of African Americans and exploring their positive and significant contributions throughout the history of the United States.

Advisory: This is an upper-level communications course. Students should have knowledge equivalent to an introductory communications course before enrolling.

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Credits: 3

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