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May 06, 2024
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2021 - 2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIS 295-05 - Special Topic: Black Abolitionist Thought4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: POL 295-04 . This interdisciplinary course examines the tradition of Black abolitionist thought in the United States. Studying the writings of key figures like David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois, students will explore how Black abolitionist activists theorized race, gender, law, rights, equality, resistance, freedom, and democracy; and consider how the contemporary movement to abolish prisons and policing has roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century racial justice activism.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 , POL 101 , or second-year standing if taken as HIS-295. POL 101 if taken as POL-295.
Instructor: L. Ferugson
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