AFST 27600 - US Civil Rights Movement

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Africana Studies

Description:

This course will trace the struggle for equal rights undertaken by various marginalized groups in the twentieth-century United States, focusing particularly on the experience of African Americans. We will examine in detail the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, considering its contesting visions for African American liberation and the meaning of American freedom and democracy. This will be put in context of the "long" struggle, going back to early efforts to fight Jim Crow and moving forward to current debates over issues such as affirmative action and reparations, with a consideration of conservative white backlash. We will also look briefly at other traditionally marginalized groups' struggles to achieve a full measure of constitutional rights and cultural acceptance. All of this will provide opportunities to discuss normative questions such as the nature of a just society and the means by which violence and injustice should be confronted. With so many powerful voices available to us from participants in these struggles, much of our study will be done through the reading and analysis of primary sources.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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