HIST 575

Spring 2019 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 4 hours.

Covers in depth, major problems in the African American experience and in the historiography of that experience, including historical periods, themes and paradigms.

Same as AFRO 501. Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours.

HIST 575 class schedule data for spring 2019
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39982
Discussion/
Recitation
A
1:00PM -2:50PM
W
Gregory Hall
Cha-Jua, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/19-05/01/19
Section Title:
Hist Dev of Black Poli Thought
Section Info:
Description: Explores the core themes, ideas, and strategies for Black liberation articulated by Black thinkers and activists throughout the African American sociohistorical experience. It examines the construction and development of the Black Intellectual Tradition(s) in the United States. This course interrogates the main ideas developed or adopted by Black scholar activists to analyze the historic and contemporary social, political, and economic conditions, the psychological state, the cultural representations of African Americans, and to organize social movements. It interrogates the ideologies and strategies constructed and used by African Americans in their struggle for justice, freedom, self-determination, or social transformation. This semester the course focuses on the ideas of five black scholar activists, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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