History (HIST) |
275 McKenzie Hall, 541-346-4802
College of Arts & Sciences
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8 - No cost for class textbook materials.
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Course Data
| HIST 250 African-American Hist >2 >AC >US |
4.00 cr. |
| The African background, development of slavery, abolitionism, the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
| Grading Options: |
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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| Instructor: |
Smith J |
Office:
323 McKenzie Hall
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| Office Hours: |
1400 - 1500 MW |
Sign up via Calendly; see syllabus. |
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CRN |
Avail |
Max |
Time |
Day |
Location |
Instructor |
Notes |
Lecture |
12332 |
2 |
50 |
1200-1320 |
mw |
221 MCK |
Smith J |
8 |
Final Exam: |
1015-1215 |
m 12/04 |
221 MCK |
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Associated Sections |
+ Dis |
15481 |
2 |
25 |
0900-0950 |
r |
471 MCK |
Sam D |
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+ Dis |
15483 |
0 |
25 |
1200-1250 |
r |
471 MCK |
Sam D |
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| September 24: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| September 30: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| September 30: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| October 1: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| October 1: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| October 2: |
Add this course |
| October 2: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| October 8: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| October 8: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| October 15: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| October 15: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| October 22: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| October 22: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| November 12: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| November 12: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| The history of African peoples in the United States has been marked by survival, resistance, and struggle. This course examines how their struggle to abolish centuries of racial slavery fundamentally shaped the modern world. European colonialism, the development of global capitalism, and the rise of American empire all depended on the kidnapping and transport of millions of people from the coasts of west and central Africa. African Americans have faced a society founded on slavery and marked by enduring racism in its culture, politics, and economy. Yet African Americans have survived within that society by retaining their identity and autonomy, building communities and institutions, and practicing resistance as they have struggled to achieve freedom.
In the first part of the course, we will explore the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its relationship to the origins of capitalism; the relationship between slavery and indigenous dispossession in settler colonial societies; the racialization of slavery in American law; and the early strategies of survival, escape, and resistance forged by enslaved Africans in the Americas before and during the Age of Revolution. We will then turn to the social and cultural life of enslaved Africans on Southern plantations and (precariously) free African Americans in the North during the antebellum period, when the Southern cotton economy became a dominant force within American capitalism and national politics. The course closes by tracing the developing tensions between Black radicalism and abolitionism, on one side, and Southern slaveholder power, on the other, on the road to war. We conclude by attending to the rebellion of enslaved people during the Civil War, the emancipation they won, and the radical democracy they attempted to forge.
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