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

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as HIST 287 and WFQS 287) This course explores the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States from the 1890’s to the 2010’s 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 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 and trace them over time including Jim Crow segregation, women’s sufferage, immigration, and social movements such as the United Farm Workers and gay rights. Amanda Brennan.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS