INTRODUCTION TO BLACK STUDIES
- The Origin and Significance of Black Studies
- Why Engage in Black Studies?
- Challenges of Black Studies
- Education and Community Capital
- Conquest Nostalgia_The Misuse of Africa from a Colonial Perspective
- Reimagining Africa
- ”Helping” Africa
- Africa in Images
- Understanding Cultural History
- Guidelines for Learning More About Africa
BLACK POLITICS
- Course Introduction: What is Politics
- African Americans, The Constitution, and the Pursuit of Freedom
- Political Socialization Culture and Frames Of Reference
- African Americans and the Media
- From Katrina to Obama
- African Americans and Coalitions
- Leadership and the Hip Hop Community
- Women’s Rights and Abolition
- The Cry Was Unity: Black Nationalism, Integration, and Class-based Ideology
- Voting and Representation
- Interest Groups
- Legal Strategies for Reparations
- Lessons from Marshall Tenure
- Limitations of Civil Rights
- Public Opinion and its Consequences
- Wealth and the New Racism
- Discussion Points on the Presidency
- Domestic Policy And Black Freedom
- Leadership and Agenda Setting
- The Bureaucracy
- Foreign Policy & The Dilemma of Black Nationality
- Neoliberalism and the Black Political Economy
- Hip Hop Activism
- Contract for the American Dream
BLACK HISTORY THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION
- Introduction to Africa
- Early Africa in Historical Context
- The African American Frontier
- Black People in Colonial North America (1526-1763)
- The Enslavement of Blacks in America
- Rising Expectations
- African Americans in the New Nation 1783-1820
- New Spain to Mexico
- Women’s Rights and Abolition
- Will You Be My Ally
- The Black West Revisited
- Women’s Rights and Abolition (Frontier Perspective)
- The Black West and The Spanish Frontier (Texas to California)
- Sectional Crisis: America Disunites
- African Americans and the Civil War
- Assessment of Reconstruction
BLACK FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO PRESENT
- A Tale of Two Negroes
- The Cry Was Unity (Part 1)
- Race Gender and the Progressive Movement
- The Cry Was Unity (Continued)
- The Making of the New Negro
- The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution
- Marching Toward Freedom (1960-1966)
- The Struggle Continues: 1965-1980
- Reagan and the New Conservative Era
- African Americans at the Dawn of a New Millenium
- Why A Black President Did Not End White Supremacy
