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Black Metropolis
| Course Number: | HIST 125 |
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| Title: | Black Metropolis |
| Day & Time 1: | MW 01:00PM 02:15PM |
| Instructor I: | Smith C |
| Credit: | 1.00 |
| Course Description: | This seminar interrogates the role of cities in African-American life. Through course readings and assignments, we will develop an alternative genealogy of black urban life that pushes against predominant narratives of urban crisis and dysfunction to consider instead how cities have also fostered black community, culture, and creativity. At the end of course, using census data, newspapers, city directories, novels, photographs, and oral history interviews, students will work in groups to map the history of black social, cultural, and political institutions on the South Side of Chicago |
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