HIST 81 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

3 Units 3 hours lecture
Transfers: CSU, UC
A survey of the history of peoples of African descent in the United States from colonial times to the present. Emphasis will be placed on struggles over the construction of race and identity, slavery and emancipation, the meanings of freedom and democracy, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements’ philosophies and strategies for achieving full citizenship, and the persistence of inequality in the contemporary period.
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