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Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and HIST 217 or HIST 218 or AFHS 257. This course explores the origins and development of racial attitudes, both scientific and popular, supporting mythologies, and contemporary institutional expressions. It will also discuss the African Americans’ attempts to resist white supremacy. Emphasis will be on African American history since Reconstruction.

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and 3 hours in African American history or African American literature. An examination of African American feminist scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries, as African American women grappled with the issues of gender, race and class. Focus on African American women’s perspectives and diverse experiences within the context of changing political, economic and social structures.