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This course offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions,and pivotal moments in African American history since emancipation. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of he black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics. Using a wide variety of texts, images, and creative works, the course situates African American history within broader national and international contexts.