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May 05, 2024
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2020-2021 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HON 200 HONORS COLLOQUIUM - GV
150 Years of Inequality: Revisiting Reconstruction: 150 years ago, Congress passed the last of the three Reconstruction Amendments. The 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens, including African Americans, and afforded those citizens equal protection under the law. The 15th Amendment prohibits the United States government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Over the course of the 19th century, state governments and federal court decisions whittled away the promise bound up in those amendments to the point where historian Eric Foner called them a “revolution unfinished”. Thus, many of the problems the Reconstruction amendments meant to address remain relevant today. This course examines the legacy of the Reconstruction Amendments by exploring their history, their legal evolution, and the sociology of race and class in contemporary society. 3 Credits Prerequisite: EN 101 FRESHMAN ENGLISH I
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