HIST 1628 - THE BLACK WEST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is not your traditional American West: The cowboys are Black, the Native Americans are educated strategists, the white settlers marry into Native families, and people of Chinese and Mexican descent navigate varied economies and cultures. This course charts the nineteenth century U.S. governmental policies that created “the West,” and shows how the broad region was shaped and settled by a diverse group of people. Though we will examine a multicultural group of colonists and Indigenous peoples, our focus is on people of African descent. Looking at the West as a space of the African Diaspora provides an opportunity to center African Americans, as well as other non-white groups as architects of our modern-day culture and society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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