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Riverside Community College District
Integrated Course Outline of Record

History 15


COURSE DESCRIPTION
15 African American History II Units: 3.00
 
Prerequisite(s): None.

Advisory: Qualification for English 1A
A study of the economic, political, social and cultural history and traditions of African Americans since Reconstruction. An examination of African American struggle for identity and status since the late 19th century, including: concepts of integration, segregation, accommodation, nationalism, separatism, Pan Africanism; social forces of Jim Crow, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, legislative and political action, Civil Rights Revolution, and concerns of post civil rights era. 54 hours lecture.
 
SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR CLASS SCHEDULE
A political, economic, cultural and social survey of African American history from the Reconstruction period through the Civil Rights Movement to the present.
 
ADVISORY ENTRY SKILLS
None.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
 Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
  1. Analyze and interpret the laws created and implemented to enslave African people and the subsequent legacy of those laws on the status and identity of African Americans and the implications of those laws for all of American society;
  2. Describe the concepts, ideas, forces, and experiences, which have shaped a uniquely African American culture in the United States;
  3. Interpret the meaning of the African struggle for freedom in America through discussion, debate, analysis and interpretation of lectures, readings, primary documents, and audio and video presentations;
  4. Identify issues facing African Americans today based on an understanding of the historical   context of contemporary concerns;
 
COURSE CONTENT
  TOPICS
 

Background and overview of major topics:

  •   Middle Passage

 Plantation communities

  • - Free Black communities in the north and south
  • - Protest and struggle against enslavement:
  • - Civil War

Reconstruction Era

  • - Emancipation Proclamation
  • - movement west
  • - 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
  • - political action

Post Reconstruction

  • - Plessy V. Ferguson
  • - Lynch Law
  • - Rise of Jim Crow
  • - reclaiming self

Accommodation and Integration

  • - Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois
  • - Marcus Garvey - Cultural Nationalism
  • - Great Migration
  • - Harlem Renaissance
  • - NAACP legal challenges to segregation

World War II

  • - Rising tide of expectations
  • - onset of Civil Rights revolution
  • - labor and employment issues
  • Civil Rights Movement and Emergence of Black Power
  • - Nonviolent, direct action
  • - Martin Luther King
  • - Malcolm X
  • - Black Panther Party
  • - Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
  • - 60s uprisings

Post Civil Rights Years

  • - African American women’s roles and identity
  • - Affirmative Action and the rise of the Black middle class
  • - integration and resegregation
  • - power and leadership in the Black Community

Students are also assigned reading, writing and other outside assignments equivalent to two hours per one hour lecture.
 
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
 Methods of instruction used to achieve student learning outcomes may include, but are not limited to:

  • Lectures which both disseminate information and pose problems;
  • Group and panel discussions; discussions which emphasize the ability to think critically
  • Field trip;
    Instructional Media:  films/videos/slides/audio tapes/graphic displays;
  • On-line instruction.

May require assigned outside reading which involves independent research in addition to the required readings.
 
METHODS OF EVALUATION
 Students will be evaluated for progress in and/or mastery of learning outcomes by methods of evaluation which may include, but are not limited to:

  • Quizzes; examinations containing objective questions (multiple choice, matching, fill-in and essay) and essay questions emphasizing critical thinking and analysis;
  • Class participation; oral reports, presentations; group and individual projects;
  • Outside written work such as research papers, term reports, and interpretive essays.
ASSIGNMENTS

Required Reading Assignments


Required Writing Assignments


Other Outside-of-Class Assignments
 
COURSE MATERIALS
 All materials used in this course will be periodically reviewed to ensure that they are appropriate for college level instruction. Possible texts include:

  • Possible texts include:

    • Bennett, Jr., Lerone. Before the Mayflower Place: Publisher, 1962
    • Blassingame, John. The Slave Community. Place: Publisher, 1972
    • Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America During the King Years, 1954-1963. Place: Publisher, 1988.
    • Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography
    • DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk Place: Publisher, 1903.
    • Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Place: Publisher, 1845.
    • Franklin, John Hope and Alfred Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom, 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill (8th edition), 2000
    • Grant, Joanne. Black Protest Documents. Place: Publisher, 1968.
    • Hamilton, Charles and Stokely Carmichael, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. Place: Publisher, 1967.
    • Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History. Place: Publisher, 1997.
    • Hooks, Bell. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Place: Publisher, 1981
    • Katz, Loren. The Black West. Place: Publisher, 1987.
    • King, Martin Luther Jr. Why We Can’t Wait. Place: Publisher, 1963.
    • Logan, Rayford. The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir 1877-1901. Place: Publisher, 1954.
    • Meir , August and Elliot Rudwick. Black Protest Thought in the 20th Century. Place: Publisher, 1971.
    • Sitkoff, Havard The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992. Place: Publisher, date.
    • Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. Place: Publisher, 1901.
    • Wheeler, Gordon. Black California: The History of African Americans in the Golden State. Place: Publisher, 1993.
    • Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
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