465 is recommended but not required. See Political Science 459 . Black Communities and Legal Rights. This course continues the study of the nexus between law, race and the social order. Whereas 450 provides students an overview of Constitutional and legislative dimensions of the Afro-American legal experience, including trends in education, employment and voting, AAS 451 considers a core of selected domestic, international and comparative legal issues.
Emphasis is placed on both legal analysis and on understanding law as a product of social process.
Themes considered include migration in history, political economy of legal development, group rights vs. individual rights in the Black circumstance, ideology and law, and comparative perspectives in African diasporic legal history. Two texts, book analysis and final exam. Topics in Black World Studies. Section 001 - Black Workers in a New Field. This course will explore the post emancipation experience of Black workers as they moved from slavery to sharecropping and from southern agriculture to northern industry.