HIST 256 - The History of Violence in America

(SOAN 256) FDR: HU
Planned Offering: Winter 2017 and alternate years
Credits: 3

An examination of the social origins, evolution, and major forms of extralegal, violent conflict in the United States, including individual and collective violence and conflict related to race, class, gender, politics, and ethnicity, especially emphasizing the 19th and 20th centuries. Major topics include theories of social conflict, slavery and interracial violence, predatory crime, labor strife, and inter-ethnic violence. Senechal.