Black Lives Matter

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines the Black Lives Matter movement within a history of social protest against state-sanctioned racial violence in the US. The course situates BLM within earlier civil rights movements and the "racial formations" (the prison industrial complex, racial justice activism, the Obama presidency) from which the movement emerged. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department) or 1.0 GESO credit at the 2000 level or beyond. Not open to students with credit for ENGL 4301H in 2018-2019 or 2021-2022.