AFRO 501

Spring 2022

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4
Problems African American Hist
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as HIST 575. See HIST 575.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
40164
Discussion/
Recitation
A
2:00PM -3:50PM
R
Armory
Cha-Jua, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/22-05/04/22
Section Title:
Lynching and Racial Violence
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.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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