History/Politics Track

Click on course listing for description. Such descriptions are available only for those courses which actually have been taught since the inception of our program in Fall 1996.

This course is a prerequisite for all other 700-level departmental courses and seminars. Afro-Am 701 is offered each fall, and 702 each spring.

(Each course below is worth four credits)

Courses Offered On a Two-Year Cycle

  • 601. Slavery
  • 602. The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • 603. Urbanization and Industrialization, 1880-1915
  • 604. Black Intellectual History and Ideology

    • Courses Offered on a Three-Year Cycle

  • 610. The Life and Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois
  • 611. Black Political Movements in America
  • 612. Black Labor in the US and South Africa
  • 613. The History of Black Women
  • 614. Race and Class in the US Economy
  • 615. Black Religious Movements in America
  • 616. Race and Ethnicity in American Life
  • 617. Critique of the Concept of Racism
  • 630. History of the South from the Colonial Period to 1900
  • 632. The Politics of Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
  • 640. Race and Public Policy

    • Seminars

  • 710. Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
  • 711. African Origins of the Afro-American Community
  • 712. Special Topics in Afro-American History and Politics
  • 713. The Pol. Economy of Race and Class in America

    • Critical Perspectives Sub-Group

  • 780. Afro-American Perspectives on American Society
  • 781. Contemporary Trends in Afro-American Thought
  • 782. Contemporary Trends in Black Literary Criticism
  • 783. An Ideological Critique of White Supremacist Thought
  • 784. Radical Perspectives in the Afro-American Experience
  • 785. Ideological Critique

    • Courses in the Critical Perspectives Sub-Group may, with the permission of the Graduate Program Director, be substituted for courses in the History/Politics or Literature/Culture Tracks in satisfaction of the concentration requirements.