AMS 260 - African-American Studies.

Institution:

Lebanon Valley College

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Description:

Students will learn about the African societies and cultures that shaped the skills and mores of enslaved Africans, the economic and politics of the Atlantic slave trade, the variety of slaveries in the Americas, the intersections between sharecropping and Jim Crow, between white supremacy and black exclusion from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Students will gain an appreciation for the complexity of African-American thought and culture over the last century, and the often bewildering identities of contemporary black Americans shaped and fractured by political beliefs, class position, gender and national origins. 3 credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lvc.edu

Phone Number:

(717) 867-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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