This course examines how African Americans have resisted racial oppression by defining themselves as both part of and apart from American society. Beginning in the age of slavery and emancipation, it traces this tension in Black culture between integration and self-determination through Jim Crow and the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and into the present, concluding with a discussion of Afrofuturism and the Obama era.
Foundations Program
This course fulfills the Forum requirement in the Foundations Program.