BLST 376 Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the modern uses and abuses of African American history by focusing on the public memory of slavery and emancipation in the United States. Analyzing a range of fiction, film, advertisements, tourist sites, and public monuments, we will interrogate and assess the ways that popular representations of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction were shaped by (and in turn, shaped) several of the key cultural developments and social and political movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. During the second half of the semester, students will complete a research paper on a topic related to the themes of the course. This course satisfies the second-stage writing requirement for the Black Studies major.
Cross Listed Courses
AMST 376
Prerequisite
One BLST course, or fulfillment of the US Diversity Core requirement