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African American History

Skyline College ZTC Early Adopter Program
2020

Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

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2017

The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

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2022

Black Film as Genre

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1978

Black Television Travels

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2013

Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

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2017

Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th Anniversary Edition

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2020

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

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2023

Higher Flight: Refocusing Black/Africana Studies for the 21st Century

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2024

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

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2023

Revisiting Slave Narratives I

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2005

The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

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2019

Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (First Edition)

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2019

Soul Liberty

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2020

To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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2008

Undoing Slavery: American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)

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2018

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Courses:

African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle "This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice."
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (2010) "The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present (2010). Prominent themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X."
Black Matters: Introduction To Black Studies "Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing."
Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains "When Reconstruction ended in 1877, southern whites used violence, economic exploitation, discriminatory laws called Black Codes, and political disenfranchisement to subjugate African Americans and undo their gains during Reconstruction. Kansas and other destinations on the Great Plains represented a chance to start a new life. Kansas had fought to be a free state and, with the Homestead Act of 1862, the region offered lots of land at low cost. As a result, between the late 1870s and early 1880s, more than 20,000 African Americans left the South for Kansas, the Oklahoma Territory, and elsewhere on the Great Plains in a migration known as the “Great Exodus.”
Introduction to African American History "AMH 2091 is an introductory-level survey course that provides an overview of the major events and developments in African American history, from Africa to the present."

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MERLOT Collections This links to OER African American History resources available through MERLOT.
OER Commons This links to African American History resources on OER Commons.
Video Tour of the African American Heritage Trail "This video playlist is a guided tour of the African American Heritage Trail, in Florence, Massachusetts, which shares the contributions and legacy of Sojourner Truth, as well as the many abolitionists, Underground Railroad agents, and former enslaved people who called Florence home in the 19th century. Each video is dedicated to a different site on the trail and includes biographical information about key figures in Florence's history."

African American History

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Select Open Educational Books for African American History

African American History

Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

Black Film as Genre

Black Television Travels

Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th Anniversary Edition

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

Higher Flight: Refocusing Black/Africana Studies for the 21st Century

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

Revisiting Slave Narratives I

The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (First Edition)

Soul Liberty

To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Undoing Slavery: American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)

Additional Open Educational Resources for African American History

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