African American Political Thought

AFST

280

African American Political Thought

Exploration of the African American community?s diverse responses to the predominant challenges it has faced (including, but not limited to, slavery); the economic and political legacies of those challenges; and American political culture more broadly. This course is an engagement with African American political thought from approximately 1830 to the present. It focuses on issues such as slavery, systemic racism, and segregation, as criticized by prominent African American philosophers, public intellectuals, and activists. May be cross listed with PSCI 277.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes