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HIST 225: James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter

This course offers an understanding of American racial history and culture at the intersection of James Baldwin's ideas during the Civil Rights Movement about himself, the "Negro problem," American myth, human dignity, and love and the current state of local activism and campaigns under the slogan Black Lives Matter. Final papers may explore social identities beyond race.
6 credits; HI, WR2, IDS; Not offered 2017-2018; H. Williams