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4.00 Credits
Examines the history of African and African American women enslaved in the United States and Caribbean. Begins with African slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic slave trade and then follows the forced migration of African women to the Americas. Readings address issues such as resistance, religion, labor, and reproduction and also cover theoretical questions about the dynamics of ideas of status, race, and gender. Ends with a section on the legacy of slavery in contemporary representations of African and African American women.
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4.00 Credits
Explores varieties of African American women's experiences (including class, ethnicity, sexuality, region, and generation). Endeavors to go beyond the black/white binary by considering black women's relationships to both intraracial and broader communities. Additionally, assesses how gender, race, and class have influenced black women's work, activism, political involvement, and creative output in the United States. Takes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing from history, memoir, sociology, feminist theory, film studies, legal theory, and the popular press.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the history of history writing in the United States, examining national histories written in the 19th and 20th centuries as part of American intellectual history. Focuses on theme, interpretation, points of view, and style in the work of past historians.
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4.00 Credits
Reframes American history, placing major events into the context of transnational and global history, showing that we share more history with the rest of the world than notions of American "exceptionalism" allow. Examines the way transnational and global historical developments are not only similar to U.S. developments but are part of a larger history that we share and that can often be partial but important causes of events in U.S. history, including the Revolution, the Civil War, social reform movements, intellectual and cultural trends, and economic development.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates and evaluates the ways in which scholars attempt to expand the boundaries of writing history. Focuses on the relationship between historical evidence and the writing of history in new ways; relation between scholar and subject; connections between history and speculation; use of unconventional voices; re-creation of past worlds and lives; and connections between history and storytelling.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the ideas of race and how racial classifications have changed over time and across regions and cultures in the United States. Themes include language, color, law, science, slavery, mixed ancestries, and white identity.
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4.00 Credits
The American Civil War punctuated the 19th century and transformed the nation. This seminar explores the experiences of slaves and former slaves, Department of History politicians and community leaders, civilians and families, soldiers and veterans, and proceeds from the premise that slavery and race were central to the war's causes and consequences.
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4.00 Credits
Explores classical arguments in American history concerning social behavior. Central themes: the power of cultural conditioning, the role of schooling and other acculturating institutions, the uses of "uplifting" reform and organizational benevolence, and the intervention of professional experts into social policymaking. Special attention to the role of ethnic and racial leaders, proponents of success and socialization, critical investigations of family and femininity, and analysis of distinctive generational responses to these and related issues.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the historical issues of the Great Depression and the New Deal years, 1933-1941, by discussing several relevant works on this period. Students choose a research project, which they report on both orally and in a seminar paper.
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4.00 Credits
By approaching autobiography as equally sociological, historical, and literary, this course facilitates a better understanding of the genre and opens new means of communication between disciplines in unraveling the meanings of human expression and experience. Sociological and historical issues raised by the materials are considered in tandem with the formal and stylistic means through which those issues are shaped in the works at hand.
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