AIH276 - African American History From Slavery to Black Lives Matter
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1-hour online lecture (recordings provided) 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
Content
Students in this unit will learn about the history and culture of African Americans, a significant minority group in the world’s superpower.
Throughout the unit, we will address two related questions:
1. how is it that in a nation based on the world’s first and most expansive assertion of democracy and rights there is such glaring inequality based on race?
2. how have African Americans shaped their own experiences given these circumstances?
Topics will include:
- the Atlantic slave trade and the experience of slave transportation
- labour, religion, family, and community from the colonial era to the “antebellum” period
- the role of free black people and slaves in the American Civil War
- the meanings of freedom and the early roots of the civil rights movement
- mobility and violence during the era of Jim Crow segregation
- leadership and grassroots organising in the Civil Rights movement
- Black Power and Black Feminism and
- “post-racial” America up to Black Lives Matter.
The primary and secondary materials, including in assessments, will enable students to follow interests in black culture, eg music and fiction, and/or politics including issues such as mass incarceration and police brutality.
Unit Fee Information
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