HIST 287 - Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Modern America

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as AMST 287 and WFQS 287) This course explores the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States from the 1890s to the 2010s through the lens of race, gender, and sexuality. We analyze the work of historians and work with primary sources like newspapers, magazines, government documents, images, speeches, television, songs, memoirs, and poetry. Students will engage with women’s history, African American history, Latinx American history and queer history as we amplify the diversity of perspectives in US history. We interrogate the construction of social categories and how they impacted people’s daily lives. This course offers the opportunity to dig deeper into topics including segregation, women’s suffrage, immigration, social and cultural movements, work, and family. Amanda Brennan.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS