ILRGL 3805

African American and Latinx Histories

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

We will undertake a comparative study of African American and Latina/o histories, cultures, and politics from the American Revolution to the present. Students will gain understandings of connections between events in the Americas including the abolition of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Mexican American War, and the US Civil War. We will study ties between US empire and the Jim Crow/Juan Crow systems. We will seek to understand Black and Brown workers' freedom struggles against systemic racism in the Sunbelt, and the roles these workers played in the making of the New Deal, Third World Solidarity, feminism, and the election of the first African American president in US history.

When Offered Spring.

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