Politics has played a key role in the African American
experience in the United States of America.  This course focuses on
the various ideologies and strategies which have informed the African
American quest for human fulfillment, self actualization, and equity
in the United States of America. Thereadings will focus on thinkers
and activists from the rebellion against slavery to the contemporary
charges of institutional racism and reparations. The course will
focus on such activists, thinkers, and writers, as Frederick
Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany, Booker T. Washington,
W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey,  Martin Luther King, Jr,  Angela
Davis , Eldridge Cleaver,  Kwame Toure, Macolm X,  Jesse Jackson, Sr,
Louis Farrakhan,  the contemporary African American conservatives,
public intellectuals, and lesser know figures will be explored.