This course will be a rotation elective course focused on special and contemporary topics in community change. It will be faculty-driven and focus on specific and important issues in community change, including specific issues impacting community change, contemporary organizing efforts, specific skills in community change, and/or specific issues, policy, population, or contexts for community change.
Topic Description: This topic course will examine the impact of previous historical events on the contemporary life of African Americans. The course will cover these historical events: slavery and the triangular trade, Jim Crow, lynchings, the great migration, Marcus Garvey, redlining and housing discrimination and the civil rights movement. The course will also investigate how these historical events negatively impact current African American life including: wealth, mass incarceration, impact of racism on health.
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