Afro-American Studies 170 - Grassroot Exp Amer Lfe & Cul I

This course combines instruction in research techniques in a variety of Humanistic and Social Science disciplines, and hands-on experience with those techniques, with substantive materials focusing on the long struggle of minority populations for full participation in American cultural and public life. (Gen. Ed. HS, DU)

Open to first-year students in the Cultural Explorations RAP in Moore Hall. Students in Cultural Explorations RAP in Moore Hall will enroll together in "Grassroots in America" (Afro Am 170). This course will be an interdisciplinary study of grassroots organizing and community experiences from the 1990s to the present day. By highlighting how community organizing has been affected by the internet and overall digital sphere, we will track the ways various organizations and movements have understood progress and community organizing and interrogate how race, gender, and sexuality inform experiences within and around these movements.

See https://www.umass.edu/rap/cultural-explorations-rap