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HIST 499-003: Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad

Spring 2024 -  Spencer Crew   -  Section Syllabus

Slavery and its abolition was one of the major issues in the United States leading up to the Civil War. Southerners saw slavery as a positive good for themselves and for the enslaved people they controlled. Abolitionists saw slavery as a blemish on the nation and were committed to bring it to an end....

HIST 300-001: Slavery,Abol,Undrgrnd Railroad

Fall 2024 -  Spencer Crew 

The course will introduce students to the theory and practice of history. It will use the Underground Railroad and its connections to enslavement and abolition as the vehicle for teaching skills in historical thinking, research, and writing. The Underground Railroad was a loose network of individuals...

Freedom Dreaming in the Digital: How Black Youth Design Abolitionist Technologies for Hope, Healing and Futurity

Past Event
Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Merten Hall, 1203

This presentation will highlight the experiences of 3 cohorts of Black high school students who participated in a 5 week critical race technology summer program at UCLA, called “Race, Abolition and AI.” The goal of the course is to foster students’ ability to critically examine the ubiquity of anti-B...

SOCI 395-001: Next System Studies Seminar

Spring 2024 -  Ben Manski 

Our lives can feel very precarious. Many of us are anxious about the future. And our ability to respond effectively to the social, economic, political, climate, ecological, and human crises of these times is undermined by a widespread sense of crisis fatigue. Several years ago, a new government was i...

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