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Nov 23, 2024
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H151 A Multicultural History of America3 credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the history of the United States from the pre-Columbian past to the multicultural present, focusing on the interactions between various peoples and cultures that have shaped what we now call “the American people.” It emphasizes the challenges multiculturalism and diversity pose to the triumphalist narrative of a united people devoted to the promotion and defense, both at home and abroad, of rights, freedom, and democracy. As a history of the American people that includes a broad range of identities–African American, Native American, Latinx, LGBTQA+, Asian American, Jewish, women, working class, etc., and all the ways in which these intersect–the course also covers, in addition to the contributions Americans of all backgrounds have made to their shared culture, the exploitation, discrimination, exclusion, genocide, segregation, lynching, relocation, internment, and imprisonment that have made the ideal embodied in E Pluribus Unum so difficult to attain. Offered spring semester. Class is available only for elementary education.
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