Course explores how contemporary racial crises have surprising histories and deep roots in America's cultural imagination. Slave owning in New England? "Black Lives Matter" and 100-year old Confederate memorials? Books, movies, TV drama, journalism today and their urgent historical background. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.

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