Afro-American Studies 366 - SEM: CONTEMP TOPICS AFR-AM ST

Topics course. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a black investigative journalist who began, in 1892, the nation's first anti-lynching campaign. In her deconstruction of the reasons for, and response to, violence--and particularly lynching--she also uncovered the myriad components of racism in a formative period of race relations that depended on ideas of emerging social sciences, gender identity, and sexuality. The course will follow Wells's campaign, and in the process study the profound intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality which have shaped American culture and history.

Topic: Ida B. Wells and the Beginning of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores