Category: History

Thavolia Glymph
HISTORY 349

The history of African American women in the United States. The production of discourses of gender, race, and class discrimination that evolved specifically to confront the presence of African American women first as slaves and later as free women. The ways in which prevalent ideas about race, race relations, and gender coalesced around images of the African American women and African American women’s struggles to assert independent identities. Multidisciplinary readings.

Topics in North American History

Thavolia Glymph
HISTORY 790S

The department offers a series of rotating courses, covering the history and historiography of various aspects of North American History. Written work is confined to methodological, conceptual, or historiographic essays. Topics vary

Archiving and Visualizing Asia

In Arts of the Moving Image, Asian Middle Eastern Studies, Documentary Studies, History, International Comparative Studies, Literature, Visual and Media Studies

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
AMES476S, ICS411S, AMI476S, LIT476S, VMS476S, HISTORY446S, DOCST476S
Fall 2019

Engages students in the practices and theories of archiving, documenting and curating marginal histories. Hands-on research in the archives of Duke’s Rubenstein Special Collections and elsewhere. Examines histories of movements and encounters between the “West” and “Asia.” Teaches original archival research and documentary methods through guided excavations in digital, audiovisual, and material resources.Directed readings and special guest lectures guide students on how to think critically on the theories and praxis of knowledge production, collection, documentation, circulation, and consumption. Students curate projects for final research assignment.

History of Latinxs in the United States

In Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History

Cecilia Marquez
HISTORY 122/GSF 122
Spring 2020

This introductory course will cover the social, cultural, and political histories of Latino/as in the United States from 1848to the present including the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Great Depression, WWI/WWII, the creation of Latino/a civil rights organizations, and the civil wars and free trade agreements of the 1980s and 1990s that have spurned so much of contemporary migration. Themes include colonialism and conquest, sexuality and gender, race and ethnicity, transnationalism and migration, social inequality and practices of resistance. This class will highlight the diversity of the Latino/a experience—focusing on the history of Afro-Latino/as, queer Latino/as, and undocumented Latino/as. Instructor: Marquez

Immigrant Dreams/US Realities

Gunther Peck
HISTORY 352/PUBPOL 220/RIGHTS 352
Fall 2018

Immigrants and immigration policy in the United States from 1850 to the present, with focus on origins and power of immigrant exclusion during three waves of migration: Northern European and Asian migrations between 1850 and 1880, Eastern European, Latin American, and Asian migrations, 1880-1920, and Latin American, African, and Asian migrations, post 1965. Immigrant roles in shaping policy debates, citizenship rights, labor movements, and American culture, past and present.

Historicizing Whiteness

In History, Public Policy

Gunther Peck
HISTORY 411S/PUBPOL 411S
Fall 2016

Examines origins, historical development, and consequences of white racial identity, from the 17th century to the present, beginning with the emergence of white racial grammar among trafficked white servants and so-called “white slaves” to the creation of racialized rights and privileges for white people in Great Britain and the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Gateway Seminar: Civil Rights and Asian Americans

In African & African-American Studies, Asian Middle Eastern Studies, History, Human Rights, International Comparative Studies, Public Policy

Sucheta Mazumdar (Course also taught by Susan Bramley Thananopavarn in Writing Program)
HISTORY 183S/AMES 187S/RIGHTS 183S/AAAS 133S/ICS 183S/PUBPOL 175S
Spring 2020

Study of crucial legal and political moments in the struggle for equal civil rights of minorities, beginning with the laws of Chinese Exclusion, the struggle to define who was “White,” the Asian Immigration Exclusion Acts, the relationships of Asians and African Americans and the struggle for equal schooling in the American South, the Japanese Concentration camps, the Redress and Reparations Civil Rights struggle, and the involvement of Asians Americans in the African American-led Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, including working with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and Asian Americans in the anti-sweatshop unionization movement.

Introduction to Public History (UNC)

Anne Mitchell Whisnant
History 671
Spring 2020

This course introduces selected topics in the history, theory, and practice of public history.Public history encompasses historical work that is conducted or encountered in public settings; is fundamentally engaged with public audiences or communities; addresses itself explicitly to current public issues or problems; or mediates between the specialized knowledge of professional historians and the historically-oriented preferences, expectations, and needs of various publics. In past years, this course has included student work on collaborative digital projects focused on histories of the UNC campus and the campus at East Carolina University. See “Names in Brick and Stone: Histories from UNC’s Built Landscape” at http://unchistory.web.unc.edu/.

History of Inequality