HUM1051 — Introduction to African American Culture
HUM 1051 - Introduction to African American Culture HUM 1051 - Introduction to African American Culture Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This course offers an introduction to important historical, political, artistic, and cultural issues concerning African American people in the United States from slavery to present day. One aim is to show how the contributions and evolutions of African American culture in the United States impacted other people and cultures in such areas as literature, science, politics, history, religion, music, theater, language, art, television, and film. Another aim is to show how white supremacy sharply influences African American cultural identities and experiences. MnTC Goals Goal 6 Goal 7B Who are black people? Culture vs. Race 2. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade 3. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and African Diaspora/ African American Religion 4. Black agency and revolution among free and enslaved blacks in an age of chattel slavery 5. The Civil War and Reconstruction 6. Black agency in a post-Civil War age of White Supremacy 7. Life home and abroad for African Americans during WWII 8. The Civil Rights Era 9. The post-Civil Rights Era 10. Black leaders: Black power and Social Justice 11. WEB Debois double consciousness (psychological) and Black Trauma-PSS (psychological) 12. The Black Church, M.L. King beloved community, and Slavery and the Problem of Suffering (religious) 13. West: Liberal structuralist vs. Conservat