We will examine the struggle for Black dignity and citizenship from Reconstruction to the present.
Lead Scholar: Peniel Joseph, University of Texas at Austin
Master Teacher: Corey Winchester
Image: Harper's weekly. [Vol. 11, no. 523 (January 5, 1867) - no. 574 (December 28, 1867) (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC01733.09)
Up to 24 PD Hours
We will examine the struggle for Black dignity and citizenship from Reconstruction to the present. The course will pay careful attention to social movements, the construction of identity, and the evolution of Black political thought and practice, especially during the twentieth century.
Optional Book Talk: If you are interested in Professor Joseph’s scholarship but want to take a different course at the Teacher Symposium, you may attend his book talk on Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution. Symposium participants attending the optional book talks can earn additional PD credit.
Children attending a Martin Luther King memorial march on April 4, 1998, carry signs saying “I Am Somebody,” photograph by Thomas M. Azim. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC08359)
Peniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD). His career focus has been on “Black Power Studies,” which encompass interdisciplinary fields such as Africana studies, law and society, women’s and ethnic studies, and political science.
Prior to joining the UT faculty, Joseph was a professor at Tufts University, where he founded the school’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy to promote engaged research and scholarship focused on the ways issues of race and democracy affect people’s lives.
Corey Winchester teaches US History and Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race at Evanston Township High School in Illinois, where he is an induction co-coordinator and staff coordinator of Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR). He was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus from Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education (2016), received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019), and was recognized as the 2020 Illinois History Teacher of the Year. Corey has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Loyola University Chicago. He is currently a PhD student in learning sciences and a social sciences methods instructor in the Teacher Education Program at Northwestern University.