HCS 325 - Voices of Black Anti-Racism and Protest Credits: 3

A research, writing-intensive, and discursive course that emphasizes bibliographical, historical, and the contemporary critical analyses of significant speeches, lyrics, movements, and other artifacts by African-American men and women. Students will examine artifacts from slave narratives, the antebellum period, Civil Rights, Black Power Struggle, Black Lives Matter, and Anti-racist literature. Emphasis is placed on public addresses, social movement rhetoric, music/hip hop, ideologies, and imagery of African Americans from the 18th to 21st century.