79-856 African American Urban History
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course explores African American Urban History from the Colonial Era to the emerging age of the Corona Virus, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. It aims to acquaint students with shifting historiographical perspectives, theory, methods, and interpretation in African American urban life and history. Specifically, this seminar will encourage students to develop their own unique interpretation of existing scholarship suggest directions for future research and sketch out a brief proposal for primary research on the subject. In more practical terms, this course will also equip students to organize and teach their own undergraduate courses on Black life in cities add an African American component to their Ph.D. qualifying projects and deepen their historical perspective on current discussions of African Americans, and the future of the nation in the aftermath the citizens insurrection at the nations capital. Finally, and most important, this course will encourage students to develop close lifelong collaborative and collegial relationships with each other.
Prerequisites: none listed
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