Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2012
• Summer Quarter 2012
• Autumn Quarter 2012

Terry A. Scott
AFRAM 272
Seattle Campus

History of the South Since the Civil War

Reconstruction and its aftermath, the Agrarian (Populist) revolt, disfranchisement and segregation, the effects of urbanization and subsequent depression, desegregation, and the struggle for civil rights. Examines the New South, the conflict of ideology with structural and material change, and the place of the South in contemporary America.

Class description

Explores Reconstruction and its legacies, the origins of rural and urban black communities, disfranchisement and segregation, the Progressive Era, war and migration, desegregation, and the struggle for civil rights. Examines the concept and evolution of the New South, the ideological construction and implication of the “New Negro,” and the place of the South in contemporary America.

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