If We Must Die
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“If We Must Die” War and Military Service in African American History AAAS 160B Fall 2015 MW 5:00pm-6:20pm Olin-Sang 124 Professor Chad Williams e-mail: chadw@brandeis.edu 781-736-3250 Mandel 219 Office Hours: Tuesday, 10:00-12:00; by appointment “His problem as a soldier was always peculiar: no matter for what America fought and no matter for what her enemies fought, the American Negro always fought for his own freedom and for the self-respect of his race.” W. E. B. Du Bois, The Gift of Black Folk (1924) COURSE DESCRIPTION This course traces African American participation in the nation's military from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. We will examine the relationship between African Americans and warfare, paying particular attention to the relationship between race and military service. Throughout the semester we will re-conceptualize the meaning of African American military history by addressing themes such as slavery and freedom, the meaning of citizenship, nationalism and imperialism, war and civil rights activism, manhood and respectability, and violence and trauma. LEARNING GOALS Students enrolled in this course will: Gain a broad introduction to the ways in which war has shaped American history. Specifically interrogate how war and military service has informed the lives of African Americans and their various historical experiences in the United States. Be introduced to key recent scholarship on African Americans in the military. Develop their writing skills through a combination of assignments focused on reading analysis, historical argumentation, and primary source research. Directory: syllabus -> public public -> Latin 120a, Vergil Fall 2015 mwth 12-1 (Block E) [modified Oct. 4 2015] public -> Hist 153b: Slavery and the American Civil War fall 2015 mwth 12-12: 50 public -> International Perspectives on Anne Frank public -> The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: Then and Now Brandeis University Marc Brettler Email public -> Mr. Thaxton Brandeis University Politics 128 Fall, 2015 The Politics of Revolution: State Violence public -> Europe since 1789 public -> Gazing into the Abyss: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche public -> Political leadership public -> Brandeis University Program in Health Science Society and Policy Download 25.99 Kb. Share with your friends:
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