Listed in: Black Studies, as BLST-239 | History, as HIST-239
Alec F. Hickmott (Section 01)
(Offered as BLST 239 [US] and HIST 239 [US]) This course will examine the practices, cultures, and consequences of racial segregation in the modern United States. Beginning with the Jim Crow South, students will learn to interpret segregation not simply as a system of racial separation but as a critical site of political, economic, and psychological investment. Two questions will animate this class: how did segregation work and for whom, historically, did it work? In attempting to answer these questions, students will learn to see the ways in which a supposedly bygone institution has continued to profoundly shape the nature and distribution of power in the United States. Students will, for instance, ponder connections between the color line in the South and the history of red-lining in the urban North. In doing so, this class will ask students to consider the ways in which southern history might be understood as national history, and the ways in which the presence of segregation remains central to the persistence of inequality in American life.
Limited to 25 students. Fall semester. Professor Hickmott.
Section 01
M 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM CHAP 203
W 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM CHAP 203
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of Jim Crow | New York: W.W. Norton, 2009 | Dailey, Jane, ed. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. | Rothstein, Richard | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017 | Gordon, Linda | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Mothers of massive resistance : White women and the politics of White supremacy. | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 | McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw. | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000 | Shaw, Nate, and Theodore Rosengarten. | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.