AFRC536 - Race, Class, and Money: Economic Inequality in American Pol. Development

This graduate-level seminar surveys the relationship between race, class, and corporate and financial interests at key junctures in American political development, including the founding, the "Age of the Common Man," ," the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive era, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Great Society, and today's era of neoliberalism, the "dark state," and Trumpism. It will have a particular institutional focus on the presidency. This course is open to undergraduates with the permission of the professor.