Undergraduate Course: African-American History: From Slavery to the White House (LLLE07005)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (HCA) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
Looking at pivotal periods and events, this course will survey the experience of African Americans in 'the land of the free', from the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 to the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
¿ understand the development, nature and impact of slavery
¿ account for the changing status of African Americans in American society
¿ describe the evolution of civil rights protest
¿ explain the role of African Americans in shaping the history of America and the development of its culture
¿ understand the significance of key events in African-American history demonstrate the above points in the assessment.
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Assessment Information
| The assessment is a 2000 word essay, worth 100% of the total mark. |
Special Arrangements
This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Content of course
1. 1619: The Arrival of Africans in the New World and Colonial Slavery
2. 1776: All Men Are Created Equal? African Americans and the American Revolution
3. 1831: Nat Turner¿s Rebellion and Antebellum Slavery
4. 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation and African Americans during the Civil War
5. 1865: The Abolition of Slavery, and Reconstruction
6. 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow
7. 1925: "The New Negro" and the Harlem Renaissance
8. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education, and Civil Rights
9. 1968: Olympic salute and Black Power
10. 2008: The election of Barack Obama and African Americans in the 21st century
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| Reading list |
Essential
Holt, T. C. and Barkley-Brown, E., (eds.), 2000. Major Problems in African-American history: documents and essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Franklin, J.H. 1980. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. 5th edition. New York: Knopf.
Kolchin, P. 1994. American Slavery: 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang.
Recommended
Berlin, I., 2003. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Kelley, R.D.G and Lewis, E., (eds.), 2000. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Meier, A., 1976. From Plantation to Ghetto, 3rd ed. New York: Hill and Wang.
Nash, G.B., 2006. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press.
Newman, M., 2004. The Civil Rights Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Woodward, C.V., 1974. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press.
Web sources
Africans in America: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts: http://www.masshist.org/endofslavery/
Geography of Slavery in Virginia: http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers¿ Project: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
¿With an Even Hand¿: Brown v. Board at Fifty: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html
Television News of the Civil Rights Era: http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/
Voices of Civil Rights: http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Loura Brooks
Tel: (0131 6)51 3200
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Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
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