Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 6 · IGETC Area 7 · CSU GE Area D · CSU GE Area FDescriptionExamines the active and indelible role African Americans haven taken in the history of the United States, from the English Colonial period to the present. Emphasis is placed on the worldview, voices, and perspectives of African Americans from their vantage points as participatory in American history. Through the examination of original source documents, material culture, and folk ways, various threads from 1619 to the present are examined, including but not limited to: white supremacy, black vs. whiteness, colonialism, Afro-American religion, Black intellectual thought & literature, Black political movements, and Black music as political expression. Students also examine US social, economic, and legal institutions which impacted the Black experience throughout the nation's history. An understanding of the human condition is sought through the voices and agency of African Americans who lived through pivotal historical moments. Using an interdisciplinary approach (social, historical, cultural, religious, geographic, economic, linguistic, and artistic), special attention is also given to major African American communities in California throughout history: Allensworth, Oakland, South-Central Los Angeles, and Westside Fresno. 