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Spring 2010 TCP Course Offering
HIST 385: Race and the American University: Public History Approaches to Exploring Emory's Race Relations in the Past and Present
Race and the American University aims to examine how race has informed the lives of staff, students, and faculty at Emory University. In particular, the class will focus on the involvement of the Emory community in the politics of race on campus, in Atlanta, and in the world more broadly. Students will be encouraged to connect the history of race at Emory to the present, by exploring critically how race continues to affect universities as places of learning, labor, and public engagement.
Uniquely, students' primary assignment for this course will be to work collaboratively with each other - as well as with partners outside of the classroom - in order to curate a museum-style exhibition on the history of race at Emory. Students will have the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in curatorial work; there will also be an oral history component, where students will work with non-profit organizations to conduct oral histories with residents of Atlanta affected by gentrification, urban renewal, and the 1996 Olympic Games. This course is being offered in conjunction with the Transforming Community Project.
For more information, visit http://www.college.emory.edu/home/academic/atlas/2010/spring/section/regular/history/HIST385-017.html
Texts:
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
Halpern, Greg, Harvard Works Because We Do
Rutheiser, Charles, Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams
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