AAS 4625 - Atlanta and Black Culture

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141, AAS 1142, or AAS 2010 with a C or higher; and at least 48 undergraduate credit hours.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
This course focuses on the history, politics and culture within the “Black New South”, a subfield within the academic field of African American Studies. With an interdisciplinary approach the focus will be on the major issues involved in the study of the African American experience, both the objective issues being analyzed in the research literature and the subjective issues of how the world sees Atlanta, Georgia as the Black Mecca.