AFRO 372

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Class Politics & Blk Community

Credit: 3 hours.

Exploration of the complex history of class relations among African Americans during the twentieth century, examining both the internal and external shapers of black class stratification. Considers the historical development of contemporary black "underclass", and the parallel expansion of the black middle class today.

Same as HIST 384. Prerequisite: AFRO 101, HIST 276, or SOC 225 or consent of instructor.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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AFRO 372 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	60364	Lecture-Discussion	1	3:00PM -4:20PM	TR	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Taylor, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Class Politics and the Black Community In 2012 the nation's first African American president, Barack Obama, was re-elected for a second term. At the same time, decades after the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans still suffer higher rates of poverty, unemployment, incarceration, and foreclosures compared to whites. Both of these realities highlight the extent to which social class creates completely different experiences among African Americans. While there have always been class differences in African American communities, the existence of a Black president and the largest number of Black elected officials in American history, amidst high levels of Black unemployment, poverty and the phenomenon of mass incarceration is a relatively new experience. This class will examine the many questions that flow from this existing dynamic in Black communities: How did the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power movements of the 1960s, both of which addressed economic inequality experienced by African Americans, impact social class in the Black community? How do descriptions of the United States as "colorblind" or "post-racial" because of the election of President Obama and other Black officials affect the dynamics of social class in the Black community? How do class differences among African Americans affect politics in Black communities and the nation in general? Are African Americans predisposed to more liberal, or even radical politics, because of higher levels of poverty, unemployment, housing insecurity in Black communities? How has class inequality affected the Black community in terms of access to jobs, education, housing and relationships with law enforcement and the criminal justice system? We will investigate these and other questions by looking at the experiences of African Americans from the postwar period and the rise of the Black social movements in the 1960s until the present Obama Era.