Week Thirteen: “African American History: From Emancipation to the Present,” Professor Jonathon Holloway, Yale University*
This week, we travel through both time and space to 2010 and New Haven, Connecticut
Professor Jonathan Holloway
We’re at Yale University again, this time to sample Jonathan Holloway’s course on African American history from Emancipation to the present day.
Professor Holloway, “uses the African American experience as a prism to understand American history, because, as he notes, the African American experience speaks to the very heart of what it means to be American.” Major course themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
*In 2020, Professor Holloway became the 21st President of Rutgers University. Dr. Holloway was previously provost of Northwestern University from 2017 to 2020 and a member of the faculty of Yale University from 1999 to 2017. At Yale, he served as Dean of Yale College and the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies. His scholarly work specializes in post-emancipation U.S. history with a focus on social and intellectual history. He is the author of numerous books and articles including: The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans (2021); Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002); and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (2013). He is currently working on a new book, A History of Absence: Race and the Making of the Modern World. President Holloway holds a PhD from Yale University.
The course begins with words from Frederick Douglass’ July 1852 “Speech Delivered to Abolitionist Friends.” For the first lecture click on the button below.
For a full course description, visit oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162. For access to the other lectures, click on that page’s “sessions” tab.
Attribution: Jonathan Holloway, African American History: From Emancipation to the Present , (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), oyc.yale.edu (Accessed April 1, 2022). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Terms of Use for this Open Yale Course are available at: oyc.yale.edu/terms.