Presents an overview of Africans and African-Americans in the Colonies and the United States from African beginnings to the present. Emphasizes the conditions of slavery and on the cultural development of African-American peoples since the Emancipation.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- The African Background
- The Slave Trade and the New World
- Colonial Slavery and the Plantation Economy
- African-Americans and the War for Independence
- African-Americans: The Constitution and the New Republic
- The Peculiar Institution of Slavery and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
- Quasi-Free African-Americans during Slavery
- The Abolitionists and the Reformers
- African-Americans in Antebellum America and Intersectional Strife
- African-American Participation in the Civil War and the End of Slavery
- Reconstruction and the New South for African-Americans
- African-Americans in the Era of Segregation
- African-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Emergence of the Black Middle Class
- African-Americans Confront the Re-Emergence of Conservative Politics
- African-Americans at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Demography
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Outline time and chronology in African-American history.
2. Identify, summarize, and analyze major elements of African-American history.
3. Analyze cause and effect in African-American history.
4. Trace elements of change and continuity in African-American history.
5. Emphasize parallelism by describing the impact of major events, personalities, and places upon African-American history.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Describe the African background.
2. Analyze the slave trade in the New World.
3. Analyze colonial slavery and the plantation economy.
4. Discuss the role of African-Americans in the War for Independence.
5. Analyze African-Americans in relation to the US Constitution and the New Republic.
6. Discuss the peculiar institution of slavery and the rise of the cotton kingdom.
7. Describe quasi-free African-Americans during slavery.
8. Compare and contrast the Abolitionists and the Reformers.
9. Describe African-Americans in Antebellum America and intersectional strife.
10. Analyze African-American participation in the Civil War and the end of slavery.
11. Explain the situation of African-Americans in Reconstruction and the New South.
12. Analyze African-Americans in the era of segregation.
13. Discuss African-Americans and the Civil Rights movement.
14. Analyze the emergence of the black middle class.
15. Illustrate how African-Americans confront the re-emergence of conservative politics.
16. Describe African-Americans at the dawn of the Twenty-First Century demography, education, and the Reparations Movement.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of academic achievement will be identified and implemented by the class instructor. Methods will include, but will not be limited to, individual projects, vocabulary, class participation (discussion and critiques), and tests.
Each instructor will select the teaching materials she/he feels are best suited to her/his course.
Outcomes
- Social Sciences
- Humanities and Fine Arts
- Civil Society and Culture - U.S. and Global
- Category 4: Social Sciences
- Category 5: Humanities and Fine Arts