INQ-110 | Black Lives Matter

Full Title: Black Lives Matter

Topic Description:

In recent years, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has refocused national attention on issues of racial injustice and violence in the United States of America. Through mass protests and online campaigns, activists involved with the #BlackLivesMatter movement have generated new and productive conversations about the role of race in contemporary America. Critics of the movement have labeled the movement as a passing fad, a critique that fails to register the range of ways that activists are effectively engaged in a long-running conversation about America’s political and social history. In contrast, this course provides an interdisciplinary reading of the #Black Lives Matter movement that places it within a longer history of intellectual debate about the role of race and racial identity in American history.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: March 2017