Freshman Seminar: Black Power and Black Arts

3 units

This course will survey the literary, artistic, intellectual, and political work of the Black Power and Black Arts movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It will look at the emergence of these movements from earlier forms of black nationalism, socialism, pan-Africianism, mainstream civil rights struggle and earlier black cultural movements. Film, music, and readings may include works of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka and Don Lee. Freshmen only.