History 692B - S-Topics in Afr American Hist

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to the key topics, questions and debates in 19th- and 20th-century African American history. Readings and discussions will consider the ways historians have researched and written about topics such as: the trans-Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, cultural and racial identity formations, gender and sexuality, religion, popular culture and leisure, labor and class, and nationalism and emigration. Readings will include foundational texts, recent scholarship, and primary sources.

Open to Doctoral & Masters students only.